Inch'Allah dimanche

Inch'Allah dimanche (2001)

The story of an immigrant woman struggling against old world traditions. Zouina leaves her homeland with her three children to join her husband in France, where he's been living for the past ten years. In a land and culture foreign to her, Zouina struggles against her mother-in-law's tyrannical hand and her husband's distrustful bitterness in an attempt to adjust to her life in exile.

Date of release
2001-12-05
TMDB
6.5 / 10 (13)
Runtime
1h 38m
Genres
Family, Drama
Director
Yamina Benguigui

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Awards: 0 · Nominations: 1

Inch'Allah Dimanche is a 2001 French/Algerian film written and directed by Yamina Benguigui. It is the director's first feature-length fiction film, and the story is centred around the life of an Algerian immigrant woman in France. The film won a number of awards, including the FIPRESCI Prize at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Production

This is Beguigui's first feature-length fiction film, and is based on her family's experience moving to France, as well as the struggles for autonomy Algerian women continue to face. Although she 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 Algerian Arabic.

The film contains a variety of French, Algerian Arabic, and Kabyle language music. Many of the tracks are performed by Algerian musician Idir.

"Al Laïl" – Alain Blesing (Alain Blesing)

"Isefra" – Idir (M. Benhammadouche, Idir)

"Le Premier Bonheur du Jour" – Françoise Hardy (Franck Gerald, Jean Renard)

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