Movie
Touchia, Song of the Women of Algiers
1993 · 73 min
A quiet, anxious interior reckoning, heavy with memory and fear, unfolding slowly as a woman weighs whether her voice is worth the danger.
- Directed by
- Mohamed Rachid Benhadj
- Genres
- Drama
- Overview
- In the streets of Algiers, the fundamentalist fervor of the Black Decade is growing. Fella, a 40-year-old Algerian woman, is about to go out to participate in a television program and be interviewed. But doubt, fear, and pain make her hesitate. Is this the moment to speak out as a woman, to remember the past, to recount the dream, the utopia, and the reality after independence?
- How it feels
- Tense, melancholic, earnest and dark. Slow-burning and demanding.
- About
- Identity, memory, gender, politics
- Content
- Mild violence and language. No gore or sexual content.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Mohamed Rachid Benhadj
- Genres
- Drama
