‘The Rif Lover’ by Narjiss Nejjar

The film is based on Noufissa Sbaï’s novel with the same name in French. Narjiss Nejjar continues her mother aim and moves it from fiction to cinema contributing alongside her mother in the liberation movement of women from the cultural restriction and boundaries. The film tells the story of a young and beautiful woman Aya (Nadia Kounda) who refused to give up her dreams against family orders and social norms. Aya longs to live a passionate love, yet she is confronted by a restricting reality and betrayed by her own kin. Aya lives with her mother (Nadia Niazi) and two brothers Ahed (Fahd Benchemsi) and Hafid (Lotfi Omar) while...

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‘Days of glory’ by Rachid Bouchareb

‘Days of glory’ is a war movie about the North-Africans who are recruited to liberate France from the Germen’s occupation. The name of the film is translated ironically in English-speaking world as ‘Days of Glory’ while in reality it is ‘Indigenes’ which means natives. The film highlights the unfair treatment to those African soldiers and how they were used, exploited and segregated. The film starts with the recruitment of the Arab soldiers especially in Morocco and Algeria 1943 though the both countries are being colonized by France. The African troops contributed in the invasion of Italy and the liberation of mainland France. Said...

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