Daughter of Keltoum

Drama

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Mehdi Charef

Status Released

Release Date 2001-09-13

Storyline

A 19 year-old Swiss woman travels to her birthplace—an isolated, barren Berber settlement in the mountainous desert landscape of Algeria—to find her biological mother, whom she has never met. The perilous journey immerses her in a world virtually untouched by contemporary society, one that still clings to tribal mores and strict religious codes of conduct.