Samia

• Benguigui, Yamina. Mémoires d’immigrés. 1997, 160 minutes.
  Documentary on the immigration of Muslim women into France through the eyes of two generations.
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• Parminder Vir. Algeria: Women at War. 1992.
  Documentary about the situation of women in Algeria.
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• A. Girardot et P. Baque. Melilla, L'Europe au pied du mur.
  Melilla is a Spanish enclave situated on the Mediterranean coast of Morocoo. It has become a symbole of the complexity of relations between Africa and Europe. Africans from south of the Sahara, as well as from Nigeria, Mali, Senegal, Cameroon, Congo, Somalia... attempt to cross secretly into Spain. Motivated pour economic or political reasons, no matter the price, they immigrate northward. Why this eagerness?
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• Faucon, Phillipe. Samia. 2000.
  A moving drama about Algerian girls in France, growing up modern on the outside and miserable on the inside in a strict Muslim household where they're little more than servants. Official Selection of the Festival of Venice, 2000. Official Site.

• Tlatli. Les Silences du Palais. 1994, 127 minutes.
  A young Tunisian woman, Alia, struggles to make a living through her magnificent voice. She is pregnant by her compagnon, Lofti, who doesn't want to commit... She then learns of a prince's death, her former master at with whom she spent her youth. Upon returning to the palace, she finds the cruel images of her mother, servants, and years of submission and suffering.

• see the section A la carte for additional film clips