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Synopsis. Rallia, 19, gets out of a rickety red and yellow bus in the middle of a mountain desert. Her smooth, fine features, long neck, dark eyes and very short hair are rarely seen in these parts. Women here don’t cut their hair, what’s more, they keep it hidden beneath scarves.
Accompanied by her grandfather and half-mad aunt, Nedjma, Rallia embarks on a painful journey through a pitiless landscape scarred by intolerance, violence and the desperation born of unthinkable poverty: a journey that will lead her to Keltoum and the devastating truth she seeks.
Feb 13, 2003 · Mehdi Charef’s latest film, Bent Keltoum (Keltoum’s Daughter), a road movie about a woman of Arab origins called Rallie ( Cylia Malki) and the daughter of a man called Keltoum, who crosses Algeria in seach of her roots.
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Apr 10, 2002 · Daughter of Keltoum: Directed by Mehdi Charef. With Cylia Malki, Baya Belal, Jean-Roger Milo, Fatma Ben Saïdane. An extraordinary story of a young woman raised in Switzerland who travels back to Algeria, her birthplace, to meet and kill her natural mother, who abandoned her shortly after birth.
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- Mehdi Charef
- 2002-04-10
Bent Keltoum (2001) Daughter of Keltoum. Movie. France. Released. Rallia is brought up by foster parents in Switzerland until she departs for Algeria and locates her mother, who left her when she was very young. Director: Mehdi Charef (Director) Madih Baleid () Writer: Mehdi Charef () Cast: Cylia Malki. Baya Belal. Jean-Roger Milo.
Dec 1, 2013 · Mehdi Charef's film Bent Keltoum, released in 2001, uses a triple temporality. First, the longue durée revealing the majesty of the Atlas mountains. It is the time pertaining to the desert,...
Bent Keltoum. 2001. 1 hr 41 mins. Drama. NR. Watchlist. Mehdi Charef directs this gritty drama about the difficulties of being a women in the strict patriarchal societies of...
