Letter to My Sister

Letter to My Sister

8.5
2006
1h 8m
HD
Documentary

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.

Top Cast

N

Nabila Djahnine

Herself

M

Malika Bouhadef

Herserf

D

Danielle Maoudj

Herself

F

Farida Mobarek

Herself

N

Notara Mobarek

Herself

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