A new film club screening North African films will launch this Friday.

The Maghreb Ciné is dedicated to films from and of the Maghreb, a western region of North Africa, and will be showing its first film, Daughter of Keltoum (La Fille de Keltoum).

The story follows the journey a young woman named Rallia, who was raised in Switzerland, but travels to an isolated Berber settlement in the rocky Atlas Mountains of Algeria.

Filmed through her eyes, the viewer is immersed in a world virtually untouched by contemporary society, and instead still follows strict religious codes of conduct.

The club was set up by Maghreb Ciné’s founder, Abdel Khairoun, and the Rabbits Road Institute’s public programme and volunteer coordinator, Laura Owen, with the aim of showing one film a month.

The next screening will take place on Friday, March 10, although a film is yet to be chosen.

Rabbits Road Institute, Old Manor Park Library, Romford Road, Manor Park, E12 5JY, Friday, February 24, 6.30pm, details: maghrebcine.wordpress.com