''Barakat!'' ("Blessings!") is a 2006

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Algeria Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered to Algeria–Tunisia border, the northeast by Tunisia; to Algeria–Libya border, the east by Libya; to Alger ...

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directed by

Djamila Sahraoui Djamila Sahraoui (born 1950) is an Algerian filmmaker. Djamila Sahraoui was born in Algiers Algiers is the capital city of Algeria as well as the capital of the Algiers Province; it extends over many Communes of Algeria, communes without ha ...

. It

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d at the

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on 16 February 2006.

Plot

During the

Algerian Civil War The Algerian Civil War (), known in Algeria as the Black Decade (, ), was a civil war fought between the Algerian government and various Islamist rebel groups from 11 January 1992 (following a 1992 Algerian coup d'état, coup negating an Islami ...

, Amel (Rachida Brakni) is a doctor who, on returning home from work one day, discovers that her journalist husband has gone missing. Receiving no help from the authorities, she decides to look for him herself. She is helped by another woman, Khadidja.

Cast

Rachida Brakni Rachida Brakni (born 15 February 1977) is a French actress and producer. Biography In 2001, she joined the Comédie Française, as a member of which she won a Molière Award for her performance in ''Ruy Blas''. In 2002, she was awarded the C� ...

as Amel * Fattouma Ousliha Bouamari as Khadidja * Zahir Bouzerar as Le vieil homme * Malika Belbey as Nadia *

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as Bilal * Ahmed Berrhama as Karim * Abdelbacet Benkhalifa as L'homme du barrage * Abdelkrim Beriber as Le policier *

Ahmed Benaissa Ahmed Benaissa (2 March 1944 – 20 May 2022) was an Algerian actor, best known for the roles in the critically acclaimed films ''Étoile aux dents ou Poulou le magnifique'', ''Gates of the Sun'', and ''Close Enemies''. Personal life He was bor ...

as Homme accueil hôpital * Mohamed Bouamari as Hadj Slimane

Awards

At the 2007

Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou The Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (, or FESPACO) is a film festival in Burkina Faso, held biennially in Ouagadougou, where the organization is based. It accepts for competition only films by African filmmakers and chief ...

, ''Barakat!'' won the Oumarou Ganda Award for the Best First Work, the award for Best Music and the award for Best Screenplay. It also won the prize for Best Arab Film at the third

Dubai International Film Festival The Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF, ) was the largest film festival in the Arab world, Arab region. With particular emphasis on showcasing Arab cinema, Arab, Asian cinema, Asian, and African cinema, it also helped to develop industry a ...

References

External links

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