Les Films Pelléas

Until the birds return

Today, in Algeria, three stories, three generations. Mourad, a real estate developer, divorced, feels that everything is slipping away from him. Aïcha, a young girl, is torn between her desire for Djalil and another promised destiny. Dahman, a neurologist, is suddenly caught up in his past, on the eve of his wedding. In the turmoil of these shaken lives, which confront each of them with decisive choices, past and present collide to tell the story of contemporary Algeria.

Release date8 novembre 2017Duration 1h53CastHassan Kachach, Mohamed Djouhri, Mehdi Ramdani, Hania Amar, Nadia Kaci, Aure Atika

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Nomination & Awards

Cannes Film Festival - Un certain regard selection

Gijón International Film Festival - Jury Prize

Lumières de la presse étrangère - First Film Selection

New York New Directors New Films - Official Selection

Rendez-vous du cinéma français à Paris - Press junket selection

Young French Cinema - Available films selection

Dubai International Film Festival - Arabian Nights selection

Vienna International Film Festival - Official Selection

Filmfest Hamburg International Film Festival - Freihafen Selection

FIFF - 1st Fiction Selection

Credits

artistic list
Mourad
Mohamed Djouhri
Lila
Sonia Mekkiou
Djalil
Mehdi Ramdani
Aïcha
Hania Amar
Dahman
Hassan Kachach
The wife
Nadia Kaci
The brother
Samir El Hakim
technical list
Screenplay
Karim Moussaoui
Maud Ameline
Image
David Chambille
Sound engineer
Arnaud Marten
Editing
Thomas Marchand
Assistant director
Franck Morand
Second assistant director
Hansen Ferhani
Script
Elsa Melquioni
Sets
Hamid Boughrara
Costumes
Maya Benchikh
Casting
Abdelmadjid Kellou
Choreographer
Georgia Ives
Mixer
Andreas Henke
Coproduced by
Jaber Debzi
Coproduced by
Nicole Gerhards
Produced by
David Thion
Philippe Martin
partners
Produced by
Les Films Pelléas
In coproduction with
Prolégomènes
NiKo Film
ARTE France Cinéma
MK2 Films
CADC
With the participation of
L'aide aux cinémas du monde
L'aide à la coproduction franco-allemande
CNC
Institut Français
d'Arte France
With the support of
Fondation Gan pour le Cinéma
With the participation of
Algerian Ministry of Culture
With the support of
Doha Film Institute
Arab Fund for Arts and Culture
With the support of
Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein
Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA)
Nordmedia - Film- und Mediengesellschaft Niedersachsen / Bremen mbH
Berlinale World Cinema Fund is an initiative of German Federal Cultural Foundation
and the Berlin International Film Festival supported by the Federal Foreign Office
and in further cooperation with the Goethe Institut
With the support of
Eurimages

Filmography

2020
Les Films Pelleas
2020
Les Films Pelleas

Les Divas du Taguerabt

Karim Moussaoui

2017
Les Films Pelleas