Rabia Mokeddem

French/Algerian director Yamina Benguigi brings us a passionate immigrant story of a 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 (imdb)

Parisian suburbs are a multiracial society. In the Algerian family Bouamazza there is Aïcha, a 25 year old, the eldest daughter and a role model for the entire neighborhood. But Aïcha wants to break free from her community and the ghetto. (imdb)