Djamila Sahraoui

Djamila Sahraoui (born 1950) is an Algerian filmmaker.

Djamila Sahraoui
Sahraoui in 2015
Born1950 (age 69–70)
Algiers, Algeria
NationalityAlgerian
OccupationFilmmaker

Djamila Sahraoui was born in Algiers on 23 October 1950. She studied literature before attending the renowned Parisian film school IDHEC (Institut des hautes études cinématographiques), specialising in scriptwriting and direction.[1] Sahraoui moved to France in 1975 where she began her career as a documentary filmmaker. She made her first short film, Houria in 1980, then worked as an editor and assistant, before going on to make her own documentaries from the 1990s.[2] Her 1995 documentary, La moitié du ciel d'Allah, featured interviews with Algerian women about work and their struggles for equality and freedom. In 1997, she was named the laureate of la Villa Medicis due to her success.[1] While Sahraoui is best known for her documentaries, she has also achieved success with her fiction films Barakat! (2006) and Yema (2013).[3]

Films

Short films
  • Houria (1980), 26 min.

Documentaries
  • Avoir 2000 ans dans les Aurès (1990), 26 min.
  • Prénom Marianne (1992), 26 min.
  • La moitié du ciel d'Allah (1995), 52 min.
  • Algérie, la vie quand même (1999), 52 min.
  • Opération Télé-cités (2000), 26 min.
  • Algérie, la vie toujours (2001), 53 min.
  • Et les arbres poussent en Kabylie (2003), 85 min.

Fiction films
gollark: Then vent it to space or something.
gollark: Yes, but you then need to pick it up.
gollark: They will probably just beam off your mindstate in an emergency.
gollark: ...·
gollark: Who would want to unleash the horror of Space English upon the world?

References
  1. Hillauer, Rebecca (2005). Encyclopedia of Arab Women Filmmakers (Rev. ed.). Cairo: American Univ. in Cairo Press. pp. 316–318. ISBN 977-424-943-7.
  2. Armes, Roy, New Voices in Arab Cinema (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015)
  3. Bedjaoui, Ahmed (May 2015). "Yema Djamila Sahraoui". Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art. 36: 116–117.
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