Barakat! is a 2006 French

France

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/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...

n drama film

Drama film

A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...

 directed by Djamila Sahraoui. It premiere

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d at the Berlin International Film Festival

Berlin International Film Festival

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 on February 16, 2006.

Plot

During the Algerian Civil War

Algerian Civil War

The Algerian Civil War was an armed conflict between the Algerian government and various Islamist rebel groups which began in 1991. It is estimated to have cost between 150,000 and 200,000 lives, in a population of about 25,010,000 in 1990 and 31,193,917 in 2000.More than 70 journalists were...

, 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
  Rachida Brakni is a French actress of Algerian origin. She is married to the football hero turned film actor Eric Cantona, whom she met on the filmset of Outremangeur in 2002....
  
   as Amel
• Fattouma Ousliha Bouamari as Khadidja
• Zahir Bouzerar as Le vieil homme
• Malika Belbey as Nadia
• Amine Kedam as Bilal
• Ahmed Berrhama as Karim
• Abdelbacet Benkhalifa as L'homme du barrage
• Abdelkrim Beriber as Le policier
• Ahmed Benaissa as Homme accueil hôpital
• Mohamed Bouamari as Hadj Slimane

Awards

At the 2007 Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou

Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou

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, 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

Dubai International Film Festival

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