Letter to My Sister (2006)

  • NR
  • 10/03/2006 (FR)
  • Documentary
  • 1h 8m

Overview

Nabila Djahnine, president of the feminist association Thirghri N'tmetout, died in hands of an armed group in Tizi Ouzou (Algeria) in 1995. The Islamists forced women, on pain of death, to wear the hijab or stop working. It was the first time a feminist woman paid with her life. Nabila wrote a letter to her sister Habiba in 1994. This documentary is her answer. In 2006 Habiba comes back to the place to restore her sister’s memory, her point of view, the day of her death and the political moment Algeria was going through at that time.

Habiba Djahnine

Director

Cast

Nabila Djahnine's headshot

Nabila Djahnine

Herself
Malika Bouhadef's headshot

Malika Bouhadef

Herserf
Danielle Maoudj's headshot

Danielle Maoudj

Herself
Farida Mobarek's headshot

Farida Mobarek

Herself
Notara Mobarek's headshot

Notara Mobarek

Herself

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