Barakat!
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73% Rotten Tomatoes Genre Drama Duration Language French, Arabic | 6.4/10 IMDb Director Djamila Sahraoui Music director Alla Country Algeria
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Release date 16 February 2006 Writer Djamila Sahraoui, Cecile Vargaftig Initial release September 13, 2006 (France) Screenplay Djamila Sahraoui, Cecile Vargaftig Cast Rachida Brakni (Amel), Malika Belbey , Abdelbacet Benkhalifa , Abdelkrim Beriber , Ahmed Berrahma , Fettouma Bouamari Similar movies Captain America: Civil War , The Last Samurai , Gone with the Wind , Beautiful Creatures , Anna and the King , The Killing Fields | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Barakat! is a 2006 French/Algerian drama film directed by Djamila Sahraoui. It premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival on 16 February 2006.
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During the Algerian Civil War, Amel (Rachida Brakni) is a doctor who, on returning home from work one day, discovers that her journalist husband has gone missing. Receiving no help from the authorities, she decides to look for him herself. She is helped by another woman, Khadidja.
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At the 2007 Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou, Barakat! won the Oumarou Ganda Award for the Best First Work, the award for Best Music and the award for Best Screenplay. It also won the prize for Best Arab Film at the third Dubai International Film Festival.
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