Women and violence on the Algerian screen

This chapter explores two films Rachida (Bachir-Chouikh 2002) and Barakat! (Enough!, Sahraoui 2006) as salient examples documenting the conflicted and complicated roles Algerian women had to negotiate in society during the civil war of the 1990s to the early 2000s. They also allude to what women face currently in the post-années noires, as they seek ways to heal physically and psychologically from the trauma of the decade.