The Secret of the Grain

La graine et le mulet, feature film, 2007

DIRECTED BY: Abdellatif Kechiche

The Secret of the Grain

CAST:
Habib Boufares (Slimane Beiji),
Hafsia Herzi (Rym),
Farida Benkhetache (Karima),
Abdelhamid Aktouche (Hamid),
Bouraouďa Marzouk (Souad)

SCRIPT:
Abdellatif Kechiche

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Lubomir Bakchev

Synopsis:
The film follows the life of an Arab family living in a port town in the south of France. The head of the family is Mr. Slimane, a tired sixty-year-old employed in the shipyard, whose dream is to open a restaurant on the water. Although divorced, he tries to maintain a relationship with his children, and the idea of ​​opening a restaurant unites the whole family.

color, 35 mm, 151 min