After a two-year period of preparation and another nine months of editing it was first shown in May 1997 on Canal+. Receiving positive reviews from critics, it was rebroadcast the following month and brought to theaters the following January. In 2001, Benguigui produced "Inch’Allah dimanche," which takes a closer look at the role gender takes within the space of a home, specifically a young women, Zouina and her family. Previous films, made by men, depict Algerian women as secondary characters, and Benguigui uses her film as a platform where these women can be depicted as multifaceted and Zouina is able to negotiate her identity outside of the strict rules set by her husband. As of February 2008 Benguigui was working on a film entitled "Le paradis, c'est complet!", starring Isabelle Adjani. In the French municipal elections of March 2008 Benguigui was elected to represent the 20th arrondissement of Paris on the Paris city council, where she concerned herself in particular with human rights and the fight against discrimination. She is associated with the Socialist Party. On 16 May 2012 President François Hollande of France appointed her to the post of Junior Minister for French Nationals Abroad and Relations with "La Francophonie" (French-speaking countries worldwide) at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. On 21 June 2012 Yamina Benguigui was confirmed as Minister for la Francophonie in the French Government. On 30 June 2012 the French President Francois Hollande asked Yamina Benguigui to succeed to Former French Prime Minister Jean Pierre Raffarin as his authorized representative for the OIF