DVD
Fatima
Call Number
- DVD FOREIGN (CEN)
Languages
In French and Arabic, with optional English subtitles.
Performers
Soria Zéroual, Zita Hanrot, Kenza-Noah Aïche, Chawki Amari, Isabelle Candelier.
Publication Information
New York, NY : Kino Lorber, Inc., [2017]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (78 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Audience
Not rated.
Uniform Title
Summary
Named the best French film of 2016 by the César Awards, Fatima is a brilliant and moving tale about what it means to be an immigrant today. It was inspired by the life of North African poet Fatima Elayoubi, who immigrated knowing very little French and slowly taught herself the language. Fatima lives with her two teenage daughters in Lyon, and works cleaning jobs to pay their way through school. She is a woman pressured by her children and her neighbors alike to assimilate into a culture of which she's wary. Fatima is a complex, uplifting film that is one of recent French cinema's most trenchant and memorable portraits of the contemporary immigrant experience.
Notes
Title from container.
Loosely based on the books by Fatima Elayoubi.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2015.
Bonus features: Interview with director Philippe Faucon ; trailer.