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Completed - FRENCH - Drama, First film - 83 minutes

Log Line

Chérif, struggling to pass the entrance exam for nursing school, takes on a side job as a security guard. On duty there, he faces off with a group of hostile teenagers who constantly harass him, and gradually ends up an accomplice to a robbery gone wrong.

Previous markets

  • Toronto 2013 (Debut)
  • Busan 2013 (Line up)
  • AFM 2013 (Line up)
  • Berlin EFM 2014 (Line up)
Full history

Year of production : 2014

Director(s) : Marianne TARDIEU
Writer(s) : Marianne TARDIEU, Jordane CHOUZENOUX
Cast : Reda KATEB, Adèle EXARCHOPOULOS, Moussa MANSALY, Rashid DEBBOUZE

Producer(s) : Céline MAUGIS (La Vie Est Belle FIlms Associes), Christophe DELSAUX (Oriflamme Films)

Synopsis

Chérif, in his thirties and having moved back in with his parents, is trying to pass the nursing exam. In the meantime, he works a job as a security guard to get by. He manages to pass the written section of the exam and meets a woman he likes, Jenny.... But the kids from the hood who hang at the mall where he works are starting to get to him. To finally get them off his back, he agrees to tip off a friend about an upcoming delivery. But in the course of that night, Chérif’s life goes off the rails...

Production

Country(ies) : FRANCE

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Festivals and Awards

Festival de Cannes 2014 ACID
Zurich FF 2014 International Feature Film Competition
Gent IFF 2014 Feature Films


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