Women is Courage / Al Mar'a Shagaa

• Release Date: 2003
• Type: Documentary
• Run time: 58 Minutes
• Directed by: Amine Rachedi
• Produced by: Marianne Khoury
• Screenplay: Madeleine Verschaffelt, Ahmed Rachdy
• Editing: Ferial Issaad
• Sound: Baroudi Ghalem
• Subtitles: English, French
• Director Of Photography: Youcef Mehdi, Ouali Seffar

Synopsis:

An autobiographic narrative, which retraces the tormented life of a witness of the century: Louisa Ighilahriz, militant and prominent figure in Algerian independence. Saved from certain death by an anonymous person, she seeks to find him during a period of 40 years just to express her gratitude…Symbolic of the painful Franco-Algerian history; Louisa’s narrative is both poignant and humane.