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MISKINA
\n(MISKINA, LA PAUVRE)<\/h1>\n[\/vc_column_text][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][vc_separator color=”custom” accent_color=”#ea1300″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1664218298120{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]\n

Thursday, October 13\u00a0<\/b>– Truffaut Theatre \u2013 12:55 pm
\n(Screening ends at 2:45 pm)
\nSpecial Screening \u2013 The American French Film Festival Awards<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n

FICTION \/ COMEDY
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Presented in Association with:
\n<\/span>Amazon Prime Video
\nWomen in Film<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][mk_image src=”https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/free-sn-rsvp-1.jpg” image_size=”full” align=”center”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][vc_separator color=”custom” accent_color=”#ea1300″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1662223056227{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]North American Theatrical Premiere<\/b><\/span>\u00a0| TV Series | France\u00a0|\u00a02022\u00a0|\u00a0Comedy\u00a0|\u00a08 x 26\u00a0min | Episodes 1, 2, 3 & 4 | In French with English subtitles\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Directed by<\/b>:<\/span> Melha Bedia, Anthony Marciano
\n<\/span>Written by<\/b>: <\/span>Melha Bedia, Yoann Gromb, Xavier Lacaille, Mehdi Fikri, Paul Rotman
\n<\/span>Produced by<\/b>: Nicolas Duval Adassowski, Margaux Bourdin Marciano (Quad Productions), Amazon Studios
\n<\/span>Cinematography<\/b>: <\/span>Emmanuel Soyer
\n<\/span>Film Editing<\/b>: Guillaume Lauras, Gr\u00e9goire Sivan, Romain Boilleau, Marie-Pierre Frappier
\n<\/span>Original Score<\/b>: Thomas Couzinier, Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Kooshmanian
\n<\/span>Cast<\/b>: Melha Bedia (Fara), Shirine Boutella, Hakim Jemili, Victor Belmondo, Xavier Lacaille, Alka Balbir
\n<\/span>International Sales<\/b>: Amazon Prime Video
\n<\/span>Original Broadcast<\/b>: Amazon Prime Video, September 30, 2022<\/span><\/p>\n

Thirty years old, overweight, no job, no husband, and still living at home… In France, they call Fara a “<\/span>Tanguy<\/span><\/i>“. In Italy, she’d be a <\/span>bamboccioni<\/span><\/i>. In her French-Algerian family, she’s a <\/span>miskina<\/span><\/i>, the object of pity and scorn. Yet, she’s the resourceful one, the one everyone relies on to solve all their problems. But what about her problems ? Fara misses her estranged father; she dreams of turning his rusty old van into a food truck and hitting the road.\u00a0 On top of that \u2014 or maybe at the bottom of it \u2014 Fara can’t seem to admit that she’s in love with her childhood best friend, Nassim… who’s now smitten with her cousin. A deadpan sit-com romp, immersed in the colorful world of Algerian immigrant culture in France, <\/span>Miskina<\/i><\/b> also offers an unflinching glimpse into the psyche of a young woman who is paralyzed, projecting societal standards onto herself and deeming herself unworthy of the happiness and love that only seem to be available to others.<\/span><\/p>\n

Born in Paris to Algerian immigrant parents, <\/span>Melha Bedia<\/b> is the younger sister of French actor\/writer\/director Ramzy Bedia. She first attempted a career as a soccer player with the Paris Saint Germain football club, before becoming a stand-up comedian, and eventually landing small parts in film comedies, like <\/span>Tout schuss<\/span><\/i> (2016), <\/span>Pattaya<\/span><\/i> (2016), <\/span>Hibou<\/span><\/i> (2016), and <\/span>Bad Buzz<\/span><\/i> (2017).\u00a0 In 2020, she wrote, directed and starred in her first short film, <\/span>Le fumoir<\/span><\/i>. Her big break came that same year, when she wrote and starred in the feature film <\/span>Ballsy Girl<\/span><\/i> (2020) opposite Valerie Lemercier, which premiered at the Alpe d’Huez Film Festival. She then played herself in the comedy <\/span>Simply Black<\/span><\/i> (2020).\u00a0 This year Bedia starred in Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Quiring’s <\/span>La tr\u00e8s tr\u00e8s grande classe<\/span><\/i> and Baya Kasmi’s <\/span>Youssef Salem a du succ\u00e8s<\/span><\/i>.\u00a0 <\/span>Miskina<\/i><\/b>, which premiered on Amazon Prime Video in September, is Bedia’s first foray into creating, co-writing and starring in her own series.<\/span><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][mk_image src=”https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/miskina-1.jpg” image_size=”full” frame_style=”gray_border” align=”center”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][mk_padding_divider][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1663688309138{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] MISKINA (MISKINA, LA PAUVRE) [\/vc_column_text][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][vc_separator color=”custom” accent_color=”#ea1300″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1664218298120{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] Thursday, October 13\u00a0– Truffaut Theatre \u2013 12:55 pm (Screening ends at 2:45 pm) Special Screening \u2013 The American French Film Festival Awards FICTION \/ COMEDY TV SERIES [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1663820051446{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] Presented in Association with: Amazon Prime Video […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11524","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11524"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13034,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11524\/revisions\/13034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}