Houria

Houria (2023) is an Algerian-French drama you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Mounia Meddour. At its center is a young dancer in Algiers whose life collapses after a brutal assault.

Houria dreamed of a ballet career, but a single night strips her of both her voice and the body she trusted. Lyna Khoudri plays a woman relearning how to move and communicate — now through sign language and her own physical expression. She finds other women who have survived violence, and together they invent a strange, wordless new kind of dance.

Meddour, who made Papicha, returns to the lives of Algerian women who refuse to stay silent. The film leans on faces and movement more than dialogue, on the way a body can speak when a voice has been taken. A powerful drama about coming back to life through art. Stream Houria (2023) online on iFILM.