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Film Festival - Book Talk & Short Film: Framing Amazigh Cinema: Challenges and Perspectives [Registration on External Link]
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Thu, Mar 26, 2026
4:30 PM – 6 PM EDT (GMT-4)
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As part of the fourth edition of the Princeton French Film Festival, you are invited to a book talk entitled Framing Amazigh Cinema: Challenges and Perspectives that include the screening of short film Taazrit by Arinas Kaouther Dernouni and a presentation of the recent book Amazigh Cinema. An Introduction to North African Indigenous Film (2025) by Profs Lucy McNair and Habiba Boumlik (CUNY).
Logistics: The film is in Amazigh (North Africa) and Arabic with English subtitles and the book talk is in English. Ticket holders receive excerpts from the above-mentioned book. Open to everyone upon registration.
Synopsis: Taazrit recounts the fascinating story of Habiba, a Chaouia woman, and her profound relationship with Ghassira, a land in the Aurès region of Algeria. This bond is both strong and complex, weaving together deep rootedness in tradition with an aspiration for emancipation. Through this film, Habiba draws us into her story, often nuanced and at times even contradictory. She shares with us her daily life as a woman living alone in a male-dominated society. Behind a seemingly warm and unassuming façade, her way of life is deliberately subversive and innovative.
Organized by the Princeton University's Princeton Film Festival organization. We thank our sponsors and partners for their support. Open to everyone regardless of identity. All rooms are wheelchair-friendly and attendees can contact us at filmfestival@princeton.edu for special accommodations (preferably 48 hours before the scheduled event). Please be aware that pictures might be taken before, during, and after the event.
Speakers
Habiba Boumlik
Habiba Boumlik is a professor in the Education & Language Acquisition department. She teaches French and Arabic language and literature, and Middle Eastern and North African Cinema. Her research interests encompass francophone literatures, North African immigration to France, Moroccan Judaism, and Amazigh identity. She has authored various publications in the fields of literature, education, and social sciences. Her work reflects a deep commitment to exploring various facets of North African culture and history. Her academic journey has taken her to several international conferences, where she has shared her insights and research on the intersection of cinema and the Amazigh diaspora. Professor Boumlik is the founder of the New York Forum of Amazigh Film, which showcases features, documentaries, and shorts by and about Amazigh/Berber people and cultures in North Africa and the diaspora.
Lucy R. McNair
Lucy R. McNair is Assistant Professor of English at LaGuardia Community College / The City University of New York. She is the translator of Mouloud Feraoun’s Algerian classic, The Poor Man’s Son (2005) and Samira Bellil’s inner-city memoir, To Hell and Back (2008). Translations of poetry and prose have appeared in The Poetry of Arab Women (2000), Poems for the Millennium, Volume Four (2012), and Staging Ground (2013). She is co-curator of the Amazigh Film Festival at LaGuardia Performing Arts Center.
Hosted By
Co-hosted with: French and Francophone Society, Princeton Undergraduate Francophone Society