1. Yamina Benguigui was born on Yamina Zora Belaidi; in Lille on 9 April 1955 and is a French film director and politician of Algerian descent.
13 Facts About Yamina Benguigui
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Yamina Benguigui is known for her films on gender issues in the North African immigrant community in France.
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Yamina Benguigui's parents were Algerian and immigrated to France from Algeria in the early 1950s.
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Yamina Benguigui never discovered why her parents decided to leave Algeria, saying the subject was considered taboo.
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Yamina Benguigui's father was a political leader in the Algerian National Movement, and was jailed in France for three years as a political prisoner.
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Yamina Benguigui married a Jewish pied-noir and has two daughters.
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Yamina Benguigui uses her films as a tool to build bridges between France's majority and minoritized groups, by bringing to light social issues such as challenges immigrants face.
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However, it is important to note, Yamina Benguigui did not represent all voices and through the film edits and framing of interviews, she ignored certain voices that did not benefit the message her films were sending.
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Yamina Benguigui released In 1994 her documentary Femmes d'Islam was broadcast on France 2, but subsequently she decided that she would prefer to examine the immigrant experience in France rather than life in Algeria.
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In 2001, Yamina Benguigui produced Inch'Allah dimanche, which takes a closer look at the role gender takes within the space of a home, specifically a young women, Zouina and her family.
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Previous films, made by men, depict Algerian women as secondary characters, and Yamina Benguigui uses her film as a platform where these women can be depicted as multifaceted and Zouina is able to negotiate her identity outside of the strict rules set by her husband.
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On 21 June 2012 Yamina Benguigui was confirmed as Minister for la Francophonie in the French Government.
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On 30 June 2012 the French President Francois Hollande asked Yamina Benguigui to succeed to Former French Prime Minister Jean Pierre Raffarin as his authorized representative for the OIF.