{{Short description|Algerian film director (1954–2022)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2020}} {{Infobox person | image = Yamina Bachir Chouikh Olivier Barlet.jpg | name = Yamina Bachir-Chouikh | birth_date = {{Birth date|1954|3|20|df=yes}} | birth_place = Algiers, French Algeria, France | death_date = {{Death date and age|2022|4|3|1954|3|20|df=yes}} | death_place = | occupation = Film director<br>Screenwriter | yearsactive = 1982–2022 }}
'''Yamina Bachir''' (20 March 1954 – 3 April 2022<ref>[https://www.lapresse.ca/cinema/2022-04-03/la-cineaste-algerienne-yamina-bachir-s-eteint.php La cinéaste algérienne Yamina Bachir s’éteint] {{in lang|fr}}</ref>) was an Algerian film director and screenwriter. Her film ''Rachida'' was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.<ref name="festival-cannes.com">{{Cite web|url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/3017869/year/2002.html |title=Festival de Cannes: Sandstorm |access-date=31 October 2009|work=festival-cannes.com}}</ref> According to Roy Armes, ''Rachida'' is 'the first 35mm feature directed by an Algerian woman in Algeria'.<ref name="Armes, Roy 2005 p. 104">Armes, Roy, ''New Voices in Arab Cinema'' (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005), p. 104</ref> The film was primarily financed by French and European funding companies. It was popular in Algeria and was distributed internationally in France.
==Career and personal life== Bachir attended the National Film School where she studied editing.<ref name=Dupont>{{cite news|last1=Dupont|first1=Joan|title=Giving a human face to Algeria's horror|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/05/style/05iht-dupont_ed3_.html|website=The New York Times|date=5 February 2003|access-date=17 December 2015}}</ref> She is best known for her work ''Rachida'' which took her five years to produce.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Corm|first1=Carole|title=A Woman's Struggle in Midst of War|journal=Al Jadid: A Review & Record of Arab Culture and Arts.|date=2004|volume=10|issue=46|url=https://www.aljadid.com/content/womans-struggle-midst-war|access-date=18 December 2015}}</ref> ''Rachida'' has been the only Algerian film screened for the Un Certain Regard prize.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Hillauer|first1=Rebecca|title=Encyclopedia of Arab women filmmakers|date=2005|publisher=American University in Cairo Press|location=Cairo, Egypt|isbn=9789774162688|page=275}}</ref>
Bachir was married to fellow Algerian director Mohammed Chouikh. She has a son and three daughters.<ref name=Dupont /> During the Black Decade, Bachir-Chouikh stayed in Algeria where she worked as a film editor on her husband's films.<ref name="Armes, Roy 2005 p. 104"/>
==Filmography== * ''Sandstorm'' (1982) * ''Rachida'' (2002)
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{IMDb name|1161984|Yamina Bachir}} * [https://www.allocine.fr/personne/fichepersonne_gen_cpersonne=75881.html Yamina Bachir-Chouikh] at Allocine. (French) * {{MoMA artist|31243}}
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