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Yachapa

  • Shot on 16mm film, the film is a sensory journey through the Andean worldview - one where craft, land, and spirit are inseparable.

  • Director: Sandra Winther
    Featuring: Nathalie Kelley
    Cinematography: João de Botelho
    Original Music: Yasmine Meddour
    Executive Producers: Kris Cody and Alice Aedy
    Produced by: Peter Goetz and Alison Schweickert
    PAKA Producer: Laura Rysz

Houria

  • Alger. Houria is a gifted dancer with dreams of joining the Algerian National Ballet. But one night she gets violently aggressed. Refusing to abandon her dream, she throws herself, heart and soul, into her physical recovery. At her rehab center, she meets other women damaged by life. Houria resolves to help them transcend their wounded bodies and stand tall - by teaching them how to dance.

  • ​Director : Mounia MEDDOUR
    Music : Yasmine MEDDOUR & Maxence DUSSERE
    Production : The Ink Connection, High Sea Production
    ​Cast : Lyna Khoudri, Hilda Amira Douaouda, Rachida Brakni, Nadia Kaci

Papicha

  • Algeria, 1990s. As the social climate becomes more conservative, Nedjma rejects the new bans set by the radicals and decides to fight for her freedom by putting on a fashion show.

  • Director : Mounia MEDDOUR
    ​Music : ROB
    End Credits : Yasmine MEDDOUR Production : The Ink Connection, High Sea Production
    Cast : Lyna Khoudri, Shirine Boutella, Nadia Kaci

Un été à Boujad

  • Summer 86. Haunted by the death of his mother, 13-year-old Karim returns to spend the holidays with his recomposed family in Boujad, a small town in Morocco. Feeling rejected by his father who has rebuilt his life, Karim tries by all means to earn back his love. 

  • Director : Omar MOULDOUIRA
    Music : Simon FRANSQUET & Yasmine MEDDOUR 
    ​Production : Awman Productions, Black Boat Pictures
    ​Cast : Yassir Kazzouz, Ahmed Elmelkouni, Hatim Seddiki​

The Divide

  • Survivors of a nuclear attack are grouped together for days in the basement of their apartment building, where fear and dwindling supplies wear away at their dynamic.

  • ​Director : Xavier GENS
    ​Music : Jean-Pierre TAÏEB
    End Credits : Yasmine MEDDOUR
    Production : The Ink Connection, High Sea Production
    Cast : Rosanna Arquette, Lauren German, Michael Biehn