Film buffs in the metropolis had the opportunity to discover, on Monday evening at the Sidi Belyout cultural complex, the film "La voisine" by the Algerian Ghaouti Bendedouche, screened as part of the Algerian Cultural Days in Morocco.

Directed in 2003, the film "La voisine", starring Baya Bouzar (Biyouna), Linda Yasmine, Aïda Guechoud, Rania, Fatiha Soltane, Naida Kherbache, Amal Bourguera and Samia Benzaï, among others, revolves around the condition of Arab women in general and Algerian women in particular, exposing the violence exercised daily against the female gender.

The film (1h 40min) tells the story of the beautiful Yamina who comes to rent a small room in a house in the Algiers Kasbah and disrupts, by her presence, the order established by the owner of the premises, "a ritual traced on a balance that she maintains, conscious of her role as arbiter and her omnipresent authority" and by the neighbors who occupy, with their husbands and children, other rooms located around the interior patio of the dwelling.

Yamina jeopardizes this imposed balance and troubles all the women of the house because for them, her youth and beauty represent a danger to their preserved universe.

The young woman thus triggers the desire of some and the jealousy of others, leading to quarrels that only accentuate the frustration experienced by every woman in this Kasbah.

The Algerian cultural days in Morocco continue until December 7 in Rabat, Casablanca and Marrakech and are part of the strengthening of relations between Morocco and Algeria in the cultural field.

A rich cultural and artistic program has been selected by the organizers, including exhibitions on visual arts, handicrafts and books, conferences, plays, film screenings, poetry readings and music performances.