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Yema, is a 2012 Algerian movie, directed by Djamila Sahraoui, and starring Djamila Sahraoui, Samir Yahia, Ali Zarif. with a runtime of 90 minutes.
Yema is a quietly devastating Algerian drama set in a small abandoned house in the rural countryside. Ouardia has buried her son Tarik — a soldier possibly killed by his own brother Ali, leader of an Islamist armed group — and is left to grieve alone in a landscape as parched as her grief. Refusing to surrender to despair, she slowly brings the neglected garden back to life through sheer courage, labor, and stubbornness. The film uses this act of cultivation as a powerful metaphor for survival and renewal, offering a deeply personal reckoning with the wounds left by Algeria's violent civil conflict.
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