The sparking tensions of female friendship are vivid and persuasive.
The Observer

Underground discos thud to the beat of dance music as men and women dress to the nines and slip through checkpoints to party the night away. Meanwhile, fingers on triggers, tensions mount between armed police forces and anti-government guerillas. This is Algiers in the 1990’s, and what headstrong fashion student Nedjma, ‘Papicha’ to her friends, doesn’t know, is that her life is about to change forever.

Lifting the lid on the radical events of the Algerian Civil War, Mounia Meddour’s Papicha follows the trials and tribulations of a group of determined young women as they come face to face with a new, dangerous reality.

Papicha is an Algerian word that refers to a funny, attractive, liberated young woman.



DVD Extras

* Making Papicha – Interview with Director Mounia Meddour
* Making Papicha – Interview with the Actors