Sun 24th Feb 5.00pm - Cambridge Picturehouse

+ Q&A with director Yamina Benguigui & Isabelle McNeill.

France / Algeria 2001. With Fejria Deliba, Rabia Mokedem, Zinedine Soualem. 98 min. PG

Zouina is a woman who is torn from her home in Algeria and joins her husband in France with her three children and her abrupt mother-in-law Aicha. She finds herself imprisoned between a distant husband, who scorns her, a hostile motherin-law and an uptight neighbour. Zouina befriends a cosmetics factory worker and begins to feel a sense of acceptance. Her curiosity and longing for experience and freedom drives Zouina to take secret excursions with her children on Sundays, and she comes to understand the difficulties of immigration, change, and adaptation.