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 imme...