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<\/h2>\n<\/h2>\n| 2022 \u2013 99\u2032 \u2013\u00a0\u00a0Drama, Action ATHENA | 2022 \u2013 99\u2032 \u2013\u00a0\u00a0Drama, Action Written by\u00a0Romain Gavras, Ladj Ly, \u00c9lias Belkeddar. Directed by\u00a0Romain Gavras. Starring Dali Benssalah, Sami Slimane, Anthony Bajon, Ouassini Embarek, Alexis Manenti, Karim Lasmi. Official Selection: Venice International Film Festival. Official Competition\u00a0TAFFF 2022. In French with English subtitles. A Netflix release.| Echoes of Ladj Ly\u2019s majestic 2019\u00a0Les Miserables\u00a0(Opening film […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":13899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,39,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tafff","category-action","category-drama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=13916"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17866,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13916\/revisions\/17866"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWritten by\u00a0Romain Gavras, Ladj Ly, \u00c9lias Belkeddar.
\nDirected by\u00a0Romain Gavras.
\nStarring Dali Benssalah, Sami Slimane, Anthony Bajon, Ouassini Embarek, Alexis Manenti, Karim Lasmi.
\nOfficial Selection: Venice International Film Festival.
\nOfficial Competition\u00a0TAFFF 2022<\/b>.
\nIn French with English subtitles.
\nA Netflix release.|<\/span><\/p>\n
\nEchoes of Ladj Ly\u2019s majestic 2019\u00a0Les Miserables\u00a0(Opening film COLCOA 2019) and Mathieu Kassovitz\u2019s groundbreaking 1995,\u00a0Hate\u00a0run through\u00a0Romain Gavras\u2018<\/strong>s eagerly-awaited, incendiary modern Greek tragedy,\u00a0Athena<\/strong>. It all begins with the death of a young boy at the hands of a rogue police officer in the Athena housing projects. The incident tears the boy\u2019s older brothers apart. Karim wants revenge at all costs. Moktar is obsessed by his own drug-dealing activities to even react. Soldier, Abdel, who\u2019s called back from the frontlines, desperately tries to calm rising tensions. But the firestorm escalates, spreading from neighborhood to neighborhood, city to city, igniting an all-out civil war of brother against brother. Operatic in scope and style, Gavras\u2019s meticulously choreographed and rehearsed elaborate takes \u2014 no CGI effects here! \u2014 take one\u2019s breath away, deftly sweeping us up in his small story of epic proportions. As Heraclitus warns, \u201cIt is difficult to fight anger; for a man will buy revenge with his soul.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\nWATCH NOW<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"