10949 Women
Synopsis
In Algiers, Nassima Hablal, a forgotten heroine of the Algerian Revolution, tells me her story of a woman in war, her fight for an independent Algeria.
Charming, ironic, and cheerful, she introduces me to her old friends: Baya, a nurse in the resistance movement, and Nelly, a social worker in the capital's slums. Through their stories, I reconstruct an incomplete heritage. By questioning Algeria of the past, I understand Algeria of the present, restoring a part of my identity.
This film shows the transmission from the first to the third generation, but it goes beyond it as well. Each year, I visit Nassima: a bond forms, a friendship takes shape, allowing a rare intimacy.
10949 Women is a film about and between women, but it is also a universal story which tests freedom. What is freedom? What is its price?
Credits
Director (1)
Production and distribution (2)
- Executive Producer : GREC - Groupe de Recherches et d'Essais Cinématographiques
- French distribution : Les Films des Deux Rives
Full credits (8)
- Executive Producers : Joanna Sitkowska, Anne Luthaud, Marcello Cavagna
- Screenwriter : Nassima Guessoum
- Directors of Photography : Nassima Guessoum, Houssem Bokhari
- Editor : Houssem Bokhari
- Sound recordists : Nassima Guessoum, Houssem Bokhari
- Sound Editor : Houssem Bokhari
- Grader : Yannig Willmann
- Sound Mixer : Géraud Bec
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Documentary
- Production language : Arabic, French
- Coproducer countries : France, Algeria
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Production year : 2014
- French release : 13/04/2016
- Runtime : 1 h 19 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 139.734
- Approval :
- Color type : Color and Black & White
- Aspect ratio : 16/9
- Audio format : Stereo
