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<\/h2>\n<\/h2>\n| 2019 – 105′ – Drama – Written and Directed by Mounia Meddour. <\/p>\n Nedjma (Lyna Khoudri starring in Wes Anderson\u2019s upcoming \u2018The French Dispatch\u2019) is a university student during the Algerian Civil War. Although she\u2019s studying French, her passion is fashion design. Defying religious conservatism, she custom-makes dresses for her peers that are examples of individual expression. Attacks on civilians are on the rise from fundamentalist Islamist sects, and a shocking incident drives Nedjma to stage a unique protest: a fashion show centered around repurposing the haik, a traditional veil, into secular garments.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n PAPICHA | 2019 – 105′ – Drama – Written and Directed by Mounia Meddour. A Algeria\/France Co-Production Starring Lyna Khoudri, Shirine Boutella, Amira Hilda Douaouda. Official Entry From Algeria \u00a9Academy Awards 2020. North American Premiere COLCOA 2019. In Arabic and French with English Subtitles. A Distrib Films U.S. release. | Nedjma (Lyna Khoudri starring […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6525,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,127,11,118,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tafff","category-co-produced-by-france","category-drama","category-fashion","category-women-directors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6641"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22384,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6641\/revisions\/22384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nA Algeria\/France Co-Production
\nStarring Lyna Khoudri, Shirine Boutella, Amira Hilda Douaouda.
\nOfficial Entry From Algeria \u00a9Academy Awards 2020.
\nNorth American Premiere COLCOA 2019<\/strong>.
\nIn Arabic and French with English Subtitles.
\nA Distrib Films U.S. release. |<\/span><\/p>\nWATCH NOW<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"