I STILL HIDE TO SMOKE

I STILL HIDE TO SMOKE

NAME OF FILM: I STILL HIDE TO SMOKE

DIRECTOR(S): Rayhana Obermeyer

STARRING: Hiam Abbass, Fadila Belkebla, Nadia Kaci

GENRE: Foreign Film

SYNOPSIS: Fatima, a strong-minded woman, is the lead masseuse of a hammam in Algiers. This is 1995 and the situation is tense in the capital. The day ahead promises to be hectic for all, and for Fatima in particular. Already, while walking to her place of work, she is the distant witness of a terrorist attack. At the hammam, Fatima should feel better, but the atmosphere proves electric in her small enclosed world, she has great difficulty in maintaining order.