{"id":25385,"date":"2025-12-11T23:40:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T23:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/?p=25385"},"modified":"2026-01-31T00:41:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T00:41:50","slug":"once-upon-my-mother-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/once-upon-my-mother-2\/","title":{"rendered":"ONCE UPON MY MOTHER"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-25717\" src=\"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/oumm-us-poster-v1-copy-237x350.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"517\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/oumm-us-poster-v1-copy-237x350.jpg 237w, https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/oumm-us-poster-v1-copy-600x887.jpg 600w, https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/oumm-us-poster-v1-copy.jpg 508w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/h2>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">COMING SOON TO THEATERS BEFORE A DIGITAL RELEASE.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>ONCE UPON MY MOTHER<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">| 2026 \u2013 102&#8242; &#8211;\u00a0 Comedy, Drama, Coming of Age.<br \/>\nWritten by:\u00a0Ken Scott.<br \/>\nBased on the Book by:\u00a0Roland Perez.<br \/>\nDirected by:\u00a0Ken Scott.<br \/>\nStarring:\u00a0Le\u00efla Bekhti,\u00a0Jonathan Cohen,\u00a0Jos\u00e9phine Japy, Sylvie Vartan, Jeanne Balibar, Naim Naji, Lionel Dray, Milo Machado-Graner, Anne Le Ny.<br \/>\n2\u00a0nominations\u00a0C\u00e9sar Awards 2026:\u00a0Best Actress (Leila Behkti), Best Design.<br \/>\nOfficial Competition\u00a0<b>TAFFF 2025\u00a0(West Coast Premiere)<\/b>.<br \/>\nIn French with English subtitles.<br \/>\nA\u00a0Menemsha Films release. |<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;\"><em>Adapted from Roland Perez\u2019s autobiographical novel\u00a0Ma m\u00e8re, Dieu et Sylvie Vartan,\u00a0Ken Scott\u2018s 2025 French box-office mega-hit tells the story of an unrelenting Sephardic Jewish mother who, against all odds, is fiercely determined to move mountains to assure that her youngest son will lead the fullest of lives, despite his handicap. Spanning decades of challenges and both major and minor \u201cmiracles\u201d, the heart-rending tale focuses on one man\u2019s incredible journey and the greatest of loves. As Rudyard Kipling once said, \u201cGod could not be everywhere, therefore he made mothers.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COMING SOON TO THEATERS BEFORE A DIGITAL RELEASE. ONCE UPON MY MOTHER | 2026 \u2013 102&#8242; &#8211;\u00a0 Comedy, Drama, Coming of Age. Written by:\u00a0Ken Scott. Based on the Book by:\u00a0Roland Perez. Directed by:\u00a0Ken Scott. Starring:\u00a0Le\u00efla Bekhti,\u00a0Jonathan Cohen,\u00a0Jos\u00e9phine Japy, Sylvie Vartan, Jeanne Balibar, Naim Naji, Lionel Dray, Milo Machado-Graner, Anne Le Ny. 2\u00a0nominations\u00a0C\u00e9sar Awards 2026:\u00a0Best Actress [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":25717,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,95,13,48,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coming-soon","category-tafff","category-comedy","category-coming-of-age","category-drama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25385","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=25385"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26065,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25385\/revisions\/26065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}