Yamina Bachir-Chouikh

Yamina Bachir-Chouikh (Arabic: يمينة بشير شويخ) was an Algerian film editor, screenwriter, and director born in Algiers on March 20, 1954, and died in the same city on April 3, 2022. She was married to director Mohamed Chouikh and was the mother of Yasmine Chouikh, also a director.

Yamina Bachir, her maiden name, began her career in film in 1973 by entering the National Center of Algerian Cinema, where she learned the various aspects of the profession. She initially worked as a script supervisor on two important Maghrebi films: "Omar Gatlato" (1976) by Merzak Allouache and "Vent de Sable" (1982) by Mohamed Lakhdar-Hamina. She subsequently devoted herself to editing most of Mohammed Chouikh's films, whom she would later marry: "The Citadel" (1989), "Youcef or the Legend of the Seventh Sleeper" (1993), "The Desert Ark" (1997), "Women's Village" (2005), and also for Okacha Touita with "The Cry of Men" (1994).

Her first film as a director, "Rachida" (2002), deals with the di...