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This volume focuses on contemporary Algerian feminist documentary filmmaker Habiba Djahnine as a 'memory-bearer' who gives voice to her compatriots to tell their own stories in her films. It provides the reader with exposure to key issues in contemporary Algerian culture and history (colonial, the Algerian War, the Black Decade of the 1990s), memory and women's and human rights. The book gives a brief overview of Algerian cinema, Algerian women filmmakers and situates Djahnine's oeuvre and its significance within the North African context. It examines her work as a feminist, teacher and poet and how she transmits this locally and transnationally. The book also explores how Djahnine uses documentary film form for personal and autobiographical explorations of Algerian history, culture, memory and trauma.

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Sheila Petty is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Professor Emerita of Film Studies at the University of Regina. She has held the SaskPower Research Chair in Cultural Heritage at the University of Regina from 2022-2024. Her research program focuses on manifestations of cultural heritage in sub-Saharan African, North African and Amazigh cinemas. She has curated exhibitions for art galleries across Canada. Her latest project, funded through the Government of Canada's New Frontiers in Research Fund, investigates methodologies for decolonizing film festival research in a post-pandemic world.

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