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Yamina Benguigui (b. April 9 1957) is a French-Algerian woman film director renowned for her films on gender issues in the North African immigrant community in France. She is the first French-Algerian woman to direct a feature film.

In an industry where women directors are rare and Arab women filmmakers are nonexistent, her work has earned praise from the Arab community.

Filmography

Mémoires d'immigrés, l'héritage maghrébin (documentary, 1997)
Pimprenelle, in Pas d'histoires ! (Don't Make Trouble!, 2001)
Inch'Allah Dimanche (Inch'Allah Sunday, 2001)
''Le Plafond de Verre (2004)

Awards

FIPRESCI Award for Courage in Filmmaking from the Toronto International Film Festival.

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