Vivantes!

Directed by Saïd Ould Khelifa

With Rym Takoucht, Samia Meziane, Hedjla Khelladi and Faïza Louail

Selma has left her small Algerian port town in search of work further south—in the Sahara. There, she meets Noune, a young French woman who has come from Paris in pursuit of her child, who was abducted by her ex-husband—a man who has since returned to Algeria. In the Sahara, in a makeshift camp cast in the shadow of gas flares, Selma and Noune join a group of women from all corners of Algeria who have come seeking menial, survival-level jobs—primarily as domestic cleaners. One night, they fall victim to a brutal, swift, and violent raid.