Name: Fatima
Genre: Drama
Released: 2016-08-26

Fatima (2016)

Genre

Drama

Release Date

August 26, 2016

Studio

Kino Lorber

Official Site

http://www.kinolorber.com/film/fatima

Information

Genre

Drama

Release Date

August 26, 2016

MPAA Rating

Duration

79 minute(s)

Production Budget

Studio

Kino Lorber

Official Site

http://www.kinolorber.com/film/fatima

Cast and Crew

Director

Philippe Faucon

Producer

Philippe Faucon, Yasmina Nini-Faucon, Serge Noel

Screenwriter

Philippe Faucon, Mustapha Kharmoudi, Yasmina Nini-Faucon, Aziza Boudjellal

Starring

Soria Zeroual
Zita Hanrot
Kenza Noah Aiche
Chawki Amari
Dalila Bencherif
Edith Saulnier

Synopsis

Fatima lives with her two teenage daughters and works cleaning jobs to pay their way through school. Inspired by a true story and the poetry of the North African writer Fatima Elayoubi, who immigrated knowing very little French and slowly taught herself the language. A patient, reflective study of a woman pressured by her children and her neighbors alike to assimilate into a culture of which she's wary.

Despite the display of everyday racism, both veiled and overt; internal domestic disputes and external gestures of inhospitality, Fatima offers an uplifting experience and one of recent French cinema's most trenchant and moving portraits of immigrant experience.