Malika

Malika is the main character of the documentary “143, Rue Du Désert” by Hassen Ferhani, released in 2019. In the middle of the Algerian desert, in her refreshment bar, a woman writes her story. She welcomes, for a cigarette, a coffee or eggs, truck drivers, wandering beings and dreams... Her name is Malika.Alone in a small white house on the edge of national road 1, the Trans-Saharan road, which connects Algiers to Tamanrasset crossing the immensity of the desert, Malika, 74, one day opened her door to the director Hassen Ferhani, who came there to scout with his friend Chawki Amari, journalist at El Watan and author of the story Nationale 1 which relates his journey on this north-south axis of more than 2000 km. The Malika of Amari's novel, which Ferhani admits to having first perceived...show more