Une femme taxi à Sidi Bel-Abbès / Machahou Productions et les Films de la passerelle présentent ; un film de Belkacem Hadjadj ; en coproduction avec l'Unité Documentaire de la RTBF Liège et l'ENTV (télévision algérienne) ; direction de production: Christine Pireaux, Rachid Diguer ; scripte: Djamila Benferhat.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Hadjadj, Belkacem, film director.

Pireaux, Christine, film producer.

Diguer, Rachid, film producer.

Benferhat, Djamila, screenwriter.

Machahou Production (Firm), production company.

Films de la passerelle (Firm), production company.

Radio-Télévision belge de la communauté culturelle française. Unité Documentaire de la RTBF Liège, production company.

ENTV Algeria, production company.

Icarus Films, distributor.

Language:

Arabic

English

French

Subjects (All):

Women taxicab drivers--Algeria--Sidi Bel Abbès.

Women taxicab drivers.

Women--Employment--Algeria--Sidi Bel Abbès.

Women.

Women--Employment.

Algeria--Sidi Bel Abbès.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Nonfiction films.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 streaming video file (51 min.) : digital, sound, color

polychrome

Other Title:

English title: Woman taxi driver in Sidi Bel-Abbès

Available from some providers with title: Female cabby in Sidi Bel-Abbès

Place of Publication:

[Brooklyn, New York] : [Distributed by] Icarus Films, [2019]

Language Note:

In French and Arabic with English subtitles.

System Details:

System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

video file

Summary:

After the death of her husband, Soumicha becomes the only woman taxi driver in Sidi Bel-Abbès (Algeria). The film shows her working conditions in a job normally reserved for men, and a city where integrist violence rages.

Credits:

Image, Ahmed Messuad ; montage, Karima Saidi ; musique, Anouar Brahem, Bellemou Massaoud.

Notes:

Title from title frames.

Originally produced by: Machahou Productions [and 3 others], ©2000; previously released in 2001.

Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed December 17, 2019).

Publisher Number:

if-cab Docuseek2

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.