Djamila Sahraoui
Djamila Sahraoui ( Arabic جميلة الصحراوي, DMG Ǧamīla aṣ-Ṣaḥrāwī ; * 1950 in Algeria ) is an Algerian director.
Sahraoui studied literature in Algiers and then film directing in Paris . Since 1990 she has made various films, most recently in 2006 the feature film Barakat! (بركات, Plural of بركة, "Blessing", u. a. with Rachida Brakni ) about a young emergency doctor and an elderly nurse in terror-ridden Algeria in the 1990s. The film was shown in the Forum des Junge Films as part of the 2006 International Film Festival in Berlin . In this film, Sahraoui wanted "neither to show caged, submissive women, as we know them from Algerian films, nor heroines who are unrealistic and who deny themselves in the name of history."
Filmography
- 2000: Opération Télé-cités
- 2001: Algérie, la vie toujours
- 2003: Et les arbres poussent en Kabylie
- 2005: Barakat!
- 2012: Yema
Web links
- Djamila Sahraoui in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sahraoui, Djamila |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Algerian director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Algeria |