Samia is a teenage girl belonging to a family of Algerian Muslims who have settled in the southern French town of Marseilles. Although lured by the pleasures and opportunities that contemporary Western culture offers her, Samia is continually restrained by her family. Naturally, they expect her to follow their traditions to the letter and, for a woman, this means staying at home all day looking after their men folk. In the end, Samia has no option but to rebel against her family and find a new life for herself…

Samia (2000)
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Lynda Benahouda
Samia
KO
Kheira Oualhaci
Halima, la mère
NEK
Nadia El Koutei
Amel, la grande soeur
YA
Yamina Amri
La tante
LS
Lakhdar Smati
Mohamed
FAH
Farida Abdallah Hadj
Farida
NA
Naïma Abdelhamid
Naïma
AS
Amel Sahnoune
Kathia