{"id":16493,"date":"2024-05-21T14:41:03","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T14:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/?p=16493"},"modified":"2025-07-01T23:28:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T23:28:04","slug":"the-secret-of-the-grain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/the-secret-of-the-grain\/","title":{"rendered":"THE SECRET OF THE GRAIN"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 data-wp-editing=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-16494\" src=\"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/secretofthegrain-250x311.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"497\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/secretofthegrain-250x311.jpeg 250w, https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/secretofthegrain-600x745.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/secretofthegrain.jpeg 688w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #660084;\">THE SECRET OF THE GRAIN<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">| 2008 &#8211; 151&#8242; &#8211; Drama.<br \/>\nWritten by:\u00a0Abdellatif Kechiche, Ghalia Lacroix.<br \/>\nDirected by:\u00a0Abdellatif Kechiche.<br \/>\nStarring:\u00a0Habib Boufares,\u00a0Hafsia Herzi,\u00a0Farida Benkhetache,\u00a0Abdelhamid Aktouche,\u00a0Bouraouia Marzouk, Alice Houri,\u00a0Leila D&#8217;Issernio,\u00a0Abelkader Djeloulli.<br \/>\nOfficial Selection Venice International Film Festival 2007 (Jury Grand Prize winner). Four 2008 C\u00e9sar Awards winner, including Best Film, Best Original Screenplay, Best Promising Actress (Hafsia Herzi)\u00a0and Best Director.<br \/>\nOfficial Competition\u00a0<b>COLCOA 2008<\/b>.<br \/>\nIn French with English subtitles.<br \/>\nA IFC Films\u00a0release. |<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\" font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">The winner of four C\u00e9sar awards, including best picture and director, Abdellatif Kechiche\u2019s\u00a0The Secret of the Grain\u00a0is a stirring drama about the daily joys and struggles of a bustling French-Arab family. It has the texture of a documentary but a classic, almost Shakespearean structure: when patriarch Slimane acts on his wish to open a portside restaurant specializing in his ex-wife\u2019s couscous and fish, the extended clan\u2019s passions and problems explode, leading to an engrossing, suspenseful climax. With sensitivity and grit,\u00a0The Secret of the Grain\u00a0celebrates the role food plays in family life and gets to the core of contemporary immigrant experience.<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B01DLL12FG\/ref=pv_ag_gcf?cmp=rt_where_to_watch&amp;tag=rottetomao-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WATCH NOW<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE SECRET OF THE GRAIN | 2008 &#8211; 151&#8242; &#8211; Drama. Written by:\u00a0Abdellatif Kechiche, Ghalia Lacroix. Directed by:\u00a0Abdellatif Kechiche. Starring:\u00a0Habib Boufares,\u00a0Hafsia Herzi,\u00a0Farida Benkhetache,\u00a0Abdelhamid Aktouche,\u00a0Bouraouia Marzouk, Alice Houri,\u00a0Leila D&#8217;Issernio,\u00a0Abelkader Djeloulli. Official Selection Venice International Film Festival 2007 (Jury Grand Prize winner). Four 2008 C\u00e9sar Awards winner, including Best Film, Best Original Screenplay, Best Promising Actress (Hafsia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":16494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,11,129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tafff","category-drama","category-tafff-awards-winners"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16493","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=16493"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18022,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16493\/revisions\/18022"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}