Rachida

Rachida is a teacher at a primary school. She is young and sure of herself. These are the nineteen nineties in Algeria. The country is in the middle of internal conflict. Armed groups are targeting civilians. One day Rachida is stopped in the street. She is told to place a bomb in her classroom. She refuses. The refusal makes her a target. She is attacked and she survives. Afterwards she has to leave the city. The story follows what comes after that. The film shows how ordinary people lived through those years. It is the director’s first feature. Ibtissem Djouadi and Bahia Rachedi appear in the ninety four minute film, an Algerian production Yamina Bachir-Chouikh finished in 2003.