As a young woman, Nadia Zouaoui vowed that her suffering would not be in vain. When she was 19, her parents forced her into an arranged marriage with an Algerian man twice her age living in Montreal. He had chosen her based on a photograph. Years later, she returns to Kabylie, Algeria to see if things are any different.
Her journey is a hellish voyage into a patriarchal culture backed by strict Muslim tradition, a society obsessed with female virginity that keeps women in servitude. She depicts with clarity and intimacy the cruelty endured even to this day by so many girls and women held captive in their homes. This deeply disturbing documentary provides a gripping experience for men and women, young and old alike.

2006, 72 min 08 s


Directed by
Carmen Garcia
Nadia Zouaoui

Produced by
Yves Bisaillon
Carmen Garcia

Production Agency
Office national du film du Canada
Argus Films Inc.

Links
* Visit the film's website

Also available in French
* Le voyage de Nadia



Credits

Research
Nadia Zouaoui

Script
Nadia Zouaoui

*
Carmen Garcia

Direction
Carmen Garcia
Nadia Zouaoui

Editing
Jean-Marie Drot

*
Claudine Sauvé

Sound
Diane Carrière

Location manager
Madjid Zouaoui

Original music
Jimmy Tanaka

Sound editing
Leopoldo Gutierrez

Collaboration to narration text
Carmen Garcia

Narration
Nadia Zouaoui

*
Valérie Gagné
Isabelle Miquelon
Luce Pelletier
Marjorie Smith

Subtitling
Claude Dionne

Editing technical support
Isabelle Painchaud

Titles
Gaspard Gaudreau

On-line editing
Françoise Laprise
Denis Pilon

Sound mixer
Luc Léger

Administrator
Salvadora Garcia

Participation
Thrifa Gasmi
Kamel Tamssaout
Zahra Amirat
Kahina Tamssaout
Thilelli
Linda Oulebsir
Farouja Cherradou
Tounsia Nait Benali
Ouazna Tamssaout
Rezkia Bouaboud
Malek Bouaboud
Zohra Benaissou
Madiha Bellal
Zahra Boussoura
Mabrouk Bouaboud
Saliha Bouaboud
Chafia Bouaboud
Rachid Bouaboud
Gaya Bouaboud
Mazigh Bouaboud
Tinhinan Bouaboud
Abdenour Oulebsir
Yasmina Tamssaout

Marketing officer
Jenny Thibault

Administrator
Denise DesLauriers

Administrative team
Hélène Regimbal
Lise Lévesque
Mirabelle Bélanger

Technical co-ordinator
Jean-François Laprise

*
Johanne Bergeron

Producers
Yves Bisaillon
Carmen Garcia