'' Rachida '' is a 2002 Algerian drama film directed by Yamina Bachir . It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival . The film was also the first 35 mm full length feature directed by an Algerian woman that was released wide-spread . Rachida lives and teaches in a popular neighborhood in Algiers . Like most of her countrymen , she thinks the conflict which is bleeding out her country does not affect her , until the day she is confronted by a group of terrorists that includes a former student of hers , Sofiane . The group asks her to plant a bomb in her school . When she refuses , the terrorists shoot her in cold blood . She saves her life miraculously and takes refuge in a nearby village
2002 Cannes Film Festival
2002 Cannes Film Festival
Rachida