hOURIA – THE VOICE OF FREEDOM
Type: dramatic ✦✦✦
Director: Mounia Meddour. With Lyna Khoudri, Rachida Brakni, Nadia Kaci, Hilda Amira Douaouda, Meriem Medjkane
Dance as a fight, the body as a battlefield. Houria (Khoudri, true force of nature), a young Algerian classical dancer with an evocative name (“Freedom” in Arabic, she tries to gamble the future with her talent.
He practices and bets on an audition, but to put aside the money that would be needed by his mother, he does not disdain clandestine bets. Precisely in that criminal undergrowth, a legacy of the country’s past (the intolerable amnesty for terrorists, the acquiescence of the institutions) will produce her nemesis.
Back together later You don’t know Papicha (2019), director and performer recite an ode to reconstruction and sisterhood.
LEGEND
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✦✦✦✦ masterpiece
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