Saturday, June 18, the 18th Edition of the International Film and Migration Festival of Agadir awarded its prizes. During this awards ceremony, Yamina Benguigui and her film sisters walked away with two prestigious awards. The feature film was released exactly a year ago.
sisters, the latest film by Yamina Benguigui, presented in the official selection at the 18th Edition of the International Film and Migration Festival in Agadir, was therefore doubly rewarded on Saturday June 18, 2022 by its jury chaired by the writer Tahar Ben Jelloun. Yamina Benguigui wins the prize for the best achievement and his actress Maïwenn, that of the best actress. She gave the reply to Isabelle Adjani and Rachida Brakni.
The story of sisters reported by our colleagues fromAllocinated : “For thirty years, three Franco-Algerian sisters, Zorah, Nohra and Djamila have been living in the hope of finding their brother Rheda, kidnapped by their father and hidden in Algeria. When they learn that this father is dying, the three of them decide to go find him in Algeria in the hope that he will reveal to them where their brother is. Then begins for Zorah and her sisters a race against time in an Algeria where the wind of revolution is rising.“
This film, Yamina Benguigui was very attached to it as she had told last year in an interview with RTS : “Our parents never gave themselves the right to put down roots in France because they thought they would return home one day. So we grew up a little in hiding from everyone and with the difficulty of telling and talking about our history. Because to speak of us or of our parents was to betray the word. With sistersI transgressed this silence, because I needed to make a committed cinema, and to go to carry this word.“A year later, these two prizes undoubtedly bring him great happiness.