CSUEB Diversity Film Festival to show "Inch' Allah Dimanche"

• April 26, 2011 10:17am

Inch' Allah Dimanche (2001) will be shown Thurs, April 28 as part of the CSUEB Diversity Film Festival sponsored by the Faculty Learning Community for Diversity, Multicultural Learning, and Social Justice.

French-Algerian director Yamina Benguigi brings us the passionate story of an Algerian immigrant woman in France, Zouina (Fjeria Deliba), who is struggling against old world traditions. She leaves her homeland with her three children to join her husband in France, where he's been living for the past 10 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 as she adjusts to her life in exile.

Benguigi is known for her films on gender issues in the North African immigrant community in France. Benguigui's parents immigrated to France from Algeria in the early 1950s. Her father was a political leader in the Algerian National Movement, and was jailed in France as a political prisoner. The film won a variety of international awards, including the 2001 International Critics' Award at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Admission is free and open to all. Inch' Allah Dimanche will be shown from 6pm to 8pm in Music Building MB-2099. For information, please contact Monique Manopoulos, assistant professor and chair of Modern Languages and Literatures at: monique.manopoulos@csueastbay.edu

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