Fatima

2015
7.7
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Title: Fatima

Original Title: Fatima

Year: 2015

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Plot

Philippe Faucon directs this film about a harsh reality that in recent times is happening in many countries. Fatima is a woman who has immigrated to France with the intention to give a better future for her daughters. She lives alone with her daughters, Souad, a teenage rebel of fifteen years and Nesrine, a young woman who just started the university of Medicine. Fatima will encounter various obstacles in her life, including the language. With a very poor French, every day is a new mission to communicate with her daughters. Working as a cleaning woman for many hours, she suffers a fall down the stairs having to ask for a license to recover. During this time, Fatima start writing her daughters in Arabic everything that she couldn't be expressed in French.

Cast

Director:

Philippe Faucon Philippe Faucon

Videos

'Fatima' French Trailer 5:47

'Fatima' French Trailer

February 27 2016

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Trivia

Film is based on books 'Prière à la lune (Pray to the Moon)' and 'Enfin, je peux marcher seule (Finally, I can walk alone)', by Fatima Elayoubi.

Soria Zeroual, who plays Fatima in the film, had never been an actress, throughout her life she worked as a cleaning woman too.

'Fatima' was the winner of three Cesar awards, including Best Picture.

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