Set amidst the civil war of Algeria in the 1990s, Enough! is the story of two women. Emel is a Westerner whose husband, a journalist, is missing - perhaps kidnapped or even killed for articles he's written.
Direction
Sahraoui's unflinching long takes refuse to look away.
Acting
Brakni's silence screams louder than any dialogue.
Director
Djamila Sahraoui
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'Black Decade' claimed 150,000+ lives; this was one of the first Algerian films by a woman to address it directly. Sahraoui had to shoot in Tunisia for safety.
The French title 'Barakat!' means both 'enough!' and 'blessings'—a bitter irony the English translation loses entirely.
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