Samia is a teenage girl belonging to a family of Algerian Muslims who have settled in the southern French town of Marseilles. Although lured by the pleasures and opportunities that contemporary Western culture offers her, Samia is continually restrained by her family. Naturally, they expect her to follow their traditions to the letter and, for a woman, this means staying at home all day looking after their men folk. In the end, Samia has no option but to rebel against her family and find a new life for herself…
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Lynda Benahouda
Samia
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Mohamed Chabane-Chaouche
Yacine
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Dans la vie
Kheira Oualhaci
Halima, la mère
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Nadia El Koutei
Amel, la grande soeur
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Yamina Amri
La tante
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Lakhdar Smati
Mohamed
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Farida Abdallah Hadj
Farida
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Naïma Abdelhamid
Naïma
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Amel Sahnoune
Kathia
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Marie Rivière
La conseillère d'orientation
Known for
The Green Ray
An Autumn Tale
Philippe Faucon Director · Soraya Nini Author
First release November 15, 2000 · Produced in France · Production Canal+, CNC
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ARTE France Cinéma
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Canal+
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CNC
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StudioCanal
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Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée
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France
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Original language
French
Spoken on screen
French
Release dates
Greece · November 15, 2000
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