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The authors of seven scripts selected out of fifty have benefitted from an audio-visual training adapted to short film techniques, held at the National Centre for Film Industry Development and supervised by filmmaker Rachid Benhadj.

The scripts of Fatiha Chaib from Timimoun, Boukra Tounsi from Tebessa,

Linda Hamlaoui from Tizi-Ouzou, Soumeya Benamara from Constantine, Fairouz

Telli from Oran, Sara Bouguenna from Blida and Fatiha Afiane from Algiers, attracted the interest of the professor at the School of Filmmakers at the Cinecitta Art Multimedia Academy of Rome, for the themes they chose, and which deal with the way a woman is seen in her society and her socio-cultural environment.

The scripts selected for filming deal with topics relating to violence against the environment, the artistic ambitions of a young girl, the myth of Lalla Mouni of Sidi Rached Bridge in Constantine, the couple life, resilience and a women's fight against cancer.

In an address read by her adviser Nabil Hadji, Minister of Culture and Arts Soraya Mouloudji paid tribute to female pioneers of Algerian cinema.

She cited one of the first female experiences in filmmaking, led by the late novelist and academic Assia Djebar, with her film "The Nuba of Mount Chenoua," followed by works by female directors like Yamina Bachir Chouikh, Nadia Laabidi, Djamila Sahraoui and Baya El Hachemi.

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