Habiba Djahnine

Sheila Petty is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Professor Emerita of Film Studies at the University of Regina. She has held the SaskPower Research Chair in Cultural Heritage at the University of Regina from 2022-2024. Her research program focuses on manifestations of cultural heritage in sub-Saharan African, North African and Amazigh cinemas. She has curated exhibitions for art galleries across Canada. Her latest project, funded through the Government of Canada’s New Frontiers in Research Fund, investigates methodologies for decolonising film festival research in a post-pandemic world.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Filmmaker, Poet, Feminist, Teacher1. Out of Amnesia: filming the memory-narrative. Lettre à ma soeur/Letter to my Sister. 20062. Becoming Citizens. Autrement citoyens, des associations en mouvement/Otherwise Citizens, Associations on the Move. 20093. Environment, Sustainable Development and Cultural Heritage. Retours à la montagne/Returns to the Mountain. 20104. ‘Rise Up Youth’: Performing Activism. Avant de franchir la ligne d'horizon/Before Crossing the Horizon Line. 20115. Women’s Rights in the New Algeria. Safia, une histoire de femme/Safia, a Woman’s Story. 20116. De-orientalising and Expanding the Cinematic Screen. D’un desert/From a Desert. 2019Conclusion: Towards an Inclusive AlgeriaWorks CitedIndex