“With great sadness and sorrow, the Cinematographic Society received the light of the news of the death of director and scriptwriter Amina Bachir Chouikh,” who was especially famous for the movie “Rachida” in 2002, which depicted “terrorist violence” once morest women in Algeria.
The film, which was one of the first artworks on the “Black Decade” (1992-2002), won several awards in festivals, including the Marrakech Festival in Morocco.
Amina Chouikh, 68, began her career in cinema in synthesis at the National Center for Cinema since 1973, and participated in most of the films of her husband, director Mohamed Chouikh, and films of director Merzak Allwash.
I was buried on Sunday in Al-Alia cemetery, in the eastern suburbs of the Algerian capital.