Moudjahidate

Catégorie : DVD

DVD

Documentaire réalisé par Alexandra Dols.

Le documentaire retrace des engagements de femmes dans les luttes pour l'Indépendance de l'Algérie au sein du FLN-AL à travers des récits de vie d'anciennes combattantes.

Elles sont poseuses de bombes, agents de liaison, infirmières, soldates au maquis, ou encore dans une solidarité active car "femmes de" prisonniers politiques.

Toutes ces moudjahidate évoquent également les villageoises qui assuraient l'hébergement et le ravitaillement des combattants et combattantes.

Les formes d'engagements des femmes sont multiples tout comme leurs "identités sociales". Alors comment ont-elles commencé à "activer"? Quels sont leurs rôles et stratégies dans les différents lieux de lutte? Quels regards portent-elles sur cette période et qu'ont-elles à nous transmettre?

Les témoignages de Fatma Chebbah Abdelli, Zohra Drif Bitat, Louisette Ighilariz, Baya Outata Kollé, Baya Laribi Toumia se tressent avec celui de l'historienne et elle-même ancienne combattante, Danièle Djamila Amrane Minne, et entrent en interaction avec des extraits du court métrage de Rabah Laradji "La bombe", et de "La bataille d'Alger" de Gillo Pontecorvo.


Bonus:
"La bombe", court métrage de Rabah Laradji
Extrait de "Histoires de la Révolution"



Subject:
The participation of women in the struggle for Algerian independence as members of the FLN-ALN (National Liberation Front–National Liberation Army).

Motivation:
Faced with the political context of the denial of the colonial history of the French State, this film is my contribution to the audiovisual chronicle of the memory of anticolonial struggle through concentrating specifically on the participation of female combatants.

Synopsis:
The documentary retraces the participation of women in the struggle for Algerian independence through the accounts of former female combatants in the FLN–ALN (National Liberation Front–National Liberation Army).
They planted bombs, arranged secret liaisons, served as nurses, fought as soldiers in the maquis, and lived in solidarity as the wives of political prisoners. These moudjahidate also share the efforts of local village women who would secure lodging and provisions for male and female resistance fighters.
Much like their social backgrounds, their participation in the struggle took multiple forms. This begs the question, how did they start to become active? What were their roles and strategies in the various theaters of combat? What is their perspective on this time and what do they have to pass on to us? The testimonies of former combatants are interlaced with the remarks of the historian Djamila Amrane Minne, as well as excerpts from “The Battle of Algiers” by Gillo Pontecorvo and the short film “The Bomb” by Rabah Laradji.


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