Yamina Benguigui's Inch'Allah Sunday

Film/Video Closing Night WOMEN WITH VISION: ON THE MOVE INCH'ALLAH SUNDAY (INCH'ALLAH DIMANCHE) Preceded by: BAUTISMO SATURDAY MARCH 22, 2003 9 PM $7 ($5 WALKER MEMBERS) AUDITORIUM

INCH'ALLAH SUNDAY (INCH'ALLAH DIMANCHE)
Directed by Yamina Benguigui
After World War II, France lacked the labor force needed to rebuild and the French government actively recruited Algerian men to immigrate, but did not allow them to bring their families. This dramatic memoir, which takes place in the 1970s after the country has reversed this policy, follows a young Algerian woman as she arrives in France with her children and mother-in-law to join her husband. Unprepared for life in exile, she finds herself in a housing complex full of people with colliding lifestyles and discovers the loneliness of being Muslim in a Christian country. With this story of a woman's search for her identity in a foreign land, director Yamina Benguigui reveals the complexities of the migration that affected her own parents and cites Elia Kazan's America, America as her inspiration. 2002, France, color, video, in French and Arabic with English subtitles, 98 minutes

Casey Koehler's Bautismo

Preceded by:
BAUTISMO
Directed by Casey Koehler
A young woman caught in a nightmare tries to flee from its vicious undertow. 2001, U.S., BW, 16mm, 6 minutes.















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