Inch'Allah Dimanche is a 2001

2001 in film

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 French

France

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/Algerian movie by Yamina Benguigui

Yamina Benguigui

Yamina Benguigui is a French-Algerian film director. She is known for her films on gender issues in the North African immigrant community in France.-Life:...

 about the life of an Algerian immigrant woman in France. The film won a variety of international awards, including the 2001 International Critics' Award at the Toronto International Film Festival

Toronto International Film Festival

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. Although Benguigui was urged to change the name of the film after the September 11 attacks, she chose to keep the original title, a portion of which is in Arabic.

Cast

• Fejria Deliba ... Zouina
• Rabia Mokeddem ... Aïcha, mother
• Amina Annabi ... Malika
• Anass Behri ... Ali
• Hamza Dubuih ... Rachid
• Zinedine Soualem ... Ahmed
• France Darry ... Mrs. Donze (neighbor)
• Roger Dumas ... Mr. Donze (neighbor)
• Marie-France Pisier ... Manant
• Mathilde Seigner ... Briat
• Jalil Lespert ... Bus driver

Plot synopsis

Zouina's husband, Ahmed, left Algeria in the 1970s to work in France. As part of the French government's family reunification

Family reunification

Family reunification is a recognized reason for immigration in many countries. The presence of one or more family members in a certain country, therefore, enables the rest of the family to immigrate to that country as well....

 scheme, Zouina is allowed to move to France from Algeria

Algeria

Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria , also formally referred to as the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of Northwest Africa with Algiers as its capital.In terms of land area, it is the largest country in Africa and the Arab...

 in order to join her husband. Leaving her mother behind, she lives with her husband, his mother and their three children. While she struggles with the physical abuse of her husband and verbal abuse of her mother-in-law, she meets French friends who help her cope with life in a different culture. She becomes more confident by the end of the movie, which ends optimistically.

Music

The film contains a variety of French, Arabic, and Kabyle language

Kabyle language

Kabyle or Kabylian is a Berber language spoken by the Kabyle people north and northeast of Algeria. Estimates about the number of speakers range from 5 million to about 7 million speakers worldwide, the majority in Algeria.-Classification:The classification of Kabyle is Afro-Asiatic, Berber and...

 music. Many of the tracks are performed by Algerian musician Idir

Idir

Hamid Cheriet better known by his stage name Idir is an Algerian musician of Berber origin.- Biography :...

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1. "Ageggig" - Idir (A. Mouhed, Idir)
2. "Al Laïl" - Alain Blesing (Alain Blesing)
3. "Apache" - The Shadows
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    (Jerry Lordan
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   )
4. "Isefra" - Idir (M. Benhammadouche, Idir)
5. "Djebel" - Aziz Bekhti
6. "Cenud" - Nourredine Chenoud
7. "Snitraw" - Idir
8. "Le Premiere Bonheur du Jour" - Françoise Hardy
   Françoise Hardy
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    (Franck Gerald, Jean Renard)
9. "Djin" - Alain Blesing
10. "Temzi (Mon Enfance)" - Hamou (Hamou, Ben Mohamed, Eric Amah, Caroline Pascaud-Blandin)
11. "Sssendu" - Idir
12. "Raoul" - Souad Massi
    Souad Massi
    Souad Massi , born August 23, 1972, is an Algerian singer, songwriter and guitarist. She began her career performing in the Kabyle political rock band Atakor, before leaving the country following a series of death threats...