1516, Legend has it that the king of Algiers had a wife named Zaphira. When the pirate Aroudj Barbarossa arrives to liberate the city from the Spaniards, he is determined to conquer Zaphira as well as the kingdom itself. But is Zaphira willing to let him, or is she plotting for herself?
Adila Bendimerad was born in 1985, in Algiers. She is a cinema, television and theatre actress ; as well as a screenwriter, producer and director. Merzak Allouache gave her an important visibility in 2011, when she was 26, in his film Normal ! In the same year, she creates her own society of cinematographical production Taj Intaj, in Algiers. The french-speaking world discovers her in the critically acclaimed film La Dernière Reine, cowritten and directed with Damien Ounouri, released in april 2023.