Papicha
Alameda Cinematheque
January 26 2020
Algiers, 1997. The country is at the hand of groups that aim to install the Islamic state. Women are the ones who are most affected by the new laws with which the leaders aim to control their bodies and behavior. In this ambient, the young student Nedjma dreams of becoming a fashion designer, so, in...
Queen of Hearts
Alameda Cinematheque
January 24 2020
What starts as a family melodrama about the small fractures in a long marriage, where the working life and intimate distancing cause the imminent cooling of the love relationship, becomes an almost incestuous and throbbing romance between a stepmother and her husband’s son. In her second feature f...
