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FATIMA \/<\/strong>\u00a0Fatima<\/h2>\n[\/vc_column_text][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1518204652035{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]\n
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West Coast Premiere \u2022 Drama \u2022 France, 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n

DCP \u2022 1.85 \u2022 Dolby 5.1 \u2022 Color \u2022 79 min<\/p>\n

Directed by<\/strong>: Philippe Faucon
\nWritten by<\/strong>: Philippe Faucon
\nBased on the books by<\/strong>: Fatima Elayoubi
\nCinematography<\/strong>: Laurent Fenart
\nFilm Editing<\/strong>: Sophie Mandonnet
\nProduced by<\/strong>: Isabelle Faucon, Philippe Faucon (Istiqlal Films)
\nCast<\/strong>: Soria Zeroual (Fatima), Zita Hanrot (Nesrine), Kenza-Noah A\u00efche (Souad), Chawki Amari (the father), Isabelle Candelier (the employer)
\nInternational Sales<\/strong>: Pyramide Films \u2022 pyramidefilms.com
\nU.S. Distributor:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Kino Lorber \u2022 kinolorber.com
\nU.S. Release Date<\/strong>: 2016<\/p>\n

This perceptive celebration of a resilient immigrant mother of two working as a house cleaner in Lyon, cleaned up at the 2016 C\u00e9sar Awards, taking prizes for Best Film, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Most Promising Actress for bright newcomer Zita Hanrot. Adopting a grounded, episodic approach, the film focuses on the challenges of cultural assimilation as seen through the eyes of two generations of women. Fatima is a divorcee holding down several menial jobs. She emigrated from North Africa at 20, but 20 years later, she struggles to speak enough French to communicate with her own daughters Nesrine and Souad, whose lives she is tirelessly devoted to improving. Nesrine is trying to strike a balance between cramming for her pre-med exams and dating, while the younger and more rebellious Souad is testing her limits and her mother\u2019s patience by acting out. Facing veiled racism, suspicion, awkwardness, and shame on a daily basis, Fatima discovers that the perfect outlet for her frustrations is also the best way to tell her daughters how she really feels.<\/p>\n

The immigrant experience is on the minds of quite a few French filmmakers of late, but for writer\/director\u00a0Philippe Faucon<\/strong>\u00a0it has been a career-defining theme.\u00a0Samia<\/em>\u00a0(2000), shed light on the conflicting expectations of first and second generation Algerian immigrants.\u00a0La D\u00e9sint\u00e9gration<\/em>\u00a0(2012) looked at the disillusionment leading to Islamic radicalization amongst a group of young men in Lille.\u00a0The Betrayal<\/em>\u00a0(2006) turned the tables, exploring the struggles of a French officer torn between his duty and the excessive repression of villagers during the Algerian War. Faucon achieves portraits of startling complexity and immediacy, in part through the use of an almost docu-style naturalism. His casting of Soria Zeroual as Fatima, a non-actor who actually works as a house cleaner, is a case in point. For the script, Faucon consulted with Aziza Boudjellal, Yasmina Nini-Faucon, and Mustapha Kharmoudi to forge a narrative out of the poems and prose from autobiographical books by Fatima Elayoubi.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

QUOTES:<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026generous in rueful insight and emotional complexity.\u201d
\n\u2013 Justin Chang,\u00a0Variety<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026brings clarity and even a sense of exhilaration to the struggle of mother and daughters to succeed on their own terms.\u201d
\n\u2013 Amy Taubin,\u00a0BFI<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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[vc_row][vc_column][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1518207001749{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] FATIMA \/\u00a0Fatima [\/vc_column_text][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1518204652035{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] West Coast Premiere \u2022 Drama \u2022 France, 2015 DCP \u2022 1.85 \u2022 Dolby 5.1 \u2022 Color \u2022 79 min Directed by: Philippe Faucon Written by: Philippe Faucon Based on the books by: Fatima Elayoubi Cinematography: Laurent Fenart Film Editing: Sophie Mandonnet Produced […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":16,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1306","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1306","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=1306"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1327,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1306\/revisions\/1327"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}