in 2006 djahnine returned to algeria, where she looked back to the death of her sister and the political situation of that moment. one question that was occupying her was ""why was dialogue impossible?"" this question was an important theme in her documentary "lettre à ma soeur" ("letter to my sister") that she issued one year later and, like her other productions, was issued outside of algeria as well. in "lettre à ma soeur" she tries to refute violence to be a solution to social disputes. her documentaries reveal factual facets of algeria, its history and the consequences of it on its society.