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

 

A TALE OF LOVE AND DESIRE

Une histoire d'amour et de désir

a film by :Leyla Bouzid

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.

French Synopsis :

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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