2021
France
103min - DCP - Scope - Color
Original language - French
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Cast
Sami Outalbali
Zbeida Belhajamor
Diong-Kéba Tacu
Aurélia Petit
Credits
Director: Leyla Bouzid
Script: Leyla Bouzid
Image: Sébastien Goepfert
Editing: Lilian Corbeille
Music: Lucas Gaudin
Producer: Sandra da Fonseca
Associated Producers : Bertrand Gore, Nathalie Mesuret
Production companies: Blue Monday Productions / ARTE France Cinéma
Festivals & Awards
AWARDS
Etalon de Bronze - Fespaco
Special Jury Prize & Valentina Pedicini Award for Best First & Second Feature - Medfilm
FESTIVALS 2021
Cannes Film Festival - Critics' Week - Closing Film
Toronto IFF - TIFF Industry Selects
Zurich IFF
Filmfest Hamburg - Film Critic Award Competition
Vancouver IFF
BFI London IFF
Busan IFF
Schlingel Youth FF
FESPACO - In Competition
Philadelphia IFF
Valladolid IFF - In Competition
Colcoa French FF
French Film Festival UK
Sydney Film Festival
Tuebingen French Film Festival
Cinemania
Miami Film Festival Gems
Thessaloniki IFF
Medfilm - In competition
Semana del Cine de Peru
Panama IFF
Cairo IFF
Red Sea IFF
Festival Varilux de Cinema Français
Ahmed, 18, French of Algerian origin, grew up in the suburbs of Paris. At the university, he meets Farah, a young Tunisian girl, full of energy, who has just arrived in Paris. While discovering a corpus of sensual and erotic Arabic literature he never imagined existed, Ahmed falls deep in love with Farah, and although literally overwhelmed with desire, he will try to resist it.
Ahmed, 18 ans, français d’origine algérienne, a grandi en banlieue parisienne. Sur les bancs de la fac, il rencontre Farah, une jeune Tunisienne pleine d’énergie fraîchement débarquée à Paris. Tout en découvrant un corpus de littérature arabe sensuelle et érotique dont il ne soupçonnait pas l’existence, Ahmed tombe très amoureux de cette fille, et bien que littéralement submergé par le désir, il va tenter d’y résister.
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