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SAMBA<\/h2>\n

| 2015 – 109′ – Comedy, Romance, Romantic Comedy.
\nWritten by:\u00a0Eric Toledano,\u00a0Olivier Nakache.
\nBased on the Book by:\u00a0Delphine Coulin.
\nDirected by:\u00a0Eric Toledano,\u00a0Olivier Nakache,\u00a0Delphine Coulin, Muriel Coulin.
\nStarring:\u00a0Omar Sy,\u00a0Charlotte Gainsbourg,\u00a0Tahar Rahim,\u00a0Iz\u00efa Higelin,\u00a0Issaka Sawadogo,\u00a0H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Vincent, Christiane Millet,\u00a0Adel Bencherif.
\nOfficial Selections: Toronto International Film Festival 2014, San Sebastian International Film Festival 2014. C\u00e9sar\u00a0Award Nomination 2015 for Best Supporting Actress (Iz\u00efa Higelin).
\nOfficial Competition\u00a0COLCOA 2015<\/b>.
\nIn French with English subtitles.
\nA Broad Green Pictures release. |<\/span><\/p>\n

Filmmakers \u00c9ric Toledano and Olivier Nakache chase their monster hit\u00a0The Intouchables\u00a0with a comedic expos\u00e9 on the plight of illegal immigrants. Omar Sy lends his incandescent talents to the role of Samba, a resourceful Senegalese illegal who has managed to stay off the books for ten years while closing in on his dream of becoming a chef. When the authorities finally catch up to him, it\u2019s up to immigrant services volunteer Alice, played by Charlotte Gainsbourg, to prevent his deportation. Alice is a timid, white-collar burnout trying to bounce back from problems of her own, but once she meets Samba, she has more than charity on her mind. When Alice advises Samba to hide in plain sight for another year until he is eligible to reapply for legal papers, Samba and his womanizing \u201cBrazilian\u201d buddy Walid (A Prophet\u2019s\u00a0Tahar Rahim) embark on a riotous odyssey of thankless jobs and random identities. But while Samba is ready to jump through all kinds of bureaucratic hoops, he\u2019s not so sure he\u2019s ready to jump into a relationship.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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SAMBA | 2015 – 109′ – Comedy, Romance, Romantic Comedy. Written by:\u00a0Eric Toledano,\u00a0Olivier Nakache. Based on the Book by:\u00a0Delphine Coulin. Directed by:\u00a0Eric Toledano,\u00a0Olivier Nakache,\u00a0Delphine Coulin, Muriel Coulin. Starring:\u00a0Omar Sy,\u00a0Charlotte Gainsbourg,\u00a0Tahar Rahim,\u00a0Iz\u00efa Higelin,\u00a0Issaka Sawadogo,\u00a0H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Vincent, Christiane Millet,\u00a0Adel Bencherif. Official Selections: Toronto International Film Festival 2014, San Sebastian International Film Festival 2014. C\u00e9sar\u00a0Award Nomination 2015 for Best […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":17083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,13,11,119,45,129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tafff","category-comedy","category-drama","category-films-literature","category-romance","category-tafff-awards-winners"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17082","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=17082"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21955,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17082\/revisions\/21955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}