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HOURIA

By Mounia MEDDOUR

FILM EUROPE (CZECH REPUBLIC) - as DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, CZECH REPUBLIC / FEST / BROAD

Female director - Completed 2022

Mounia Meddour follows the award-winning Papicha with a powerful and moving drama about resistance, womanhood, and healing through creativity, featuring a stunning lead performance from Lyna Khoudri.

- Year of production
- 2022
- Genres
- Female director, Drama
- Countries
- FRANCE
- Languages
- FRENCH
- Director(s)
- Mounia MEDDOUR
- Cast
- Lyna KHOUDRI, Rachida BRAKNI, Amira Hilda DOUAOUDA
- Synopsis
- Alger. Houria (25) is a gifted dancer with dreams of joining the Algerian National Ballet. To make ends meet, she works as a cleaning lady during the day and bets in clandestine fights overnight. After winning a final, Houria is assaulted by Ali, who is determined to get his money back. When she wakes up in a hospital, the prognosis is grim: she is unable to speak and will certainly never dance again. Refusing to abandon her dream, she throws herself, heart and soul, into her physical recovery. At her rehab center, she meets other women damaged by life. Houria resolves to help them transcend their wounded bodies and stand tall - by teaching them how to dance.