Bent Keltoum
Synopsis
Rallia, 19, gets out of a rickety red and yellow bus in the middle of a mountain desert.
Her smooth, fine features, long neck, dark eyes and very short hair are rarely seen in these parts. Women here don’t cut their hair, what’s more, they keep it hidden beneath scarves. But this girl is from somewhere else, beyond the big city, from a foreign land. Isn’t she from a country where “children eat three meals a day?” a young hunchbacked mountain woman wonders. Rallia’s life didn’t begin in this mountain, although she has returned to it.
She wants to find her family, her father and mother. The first relative she meets is her grandfather who lives in a ramshackle stone and thatch house in the middle of the plateau under the blistering sun. A bony, wiry old fellow, he subsists by selling asparagus that he gathers from beneath thorn bushes.
She introduces herself to the silent man: “I’m Keltoum’s daughter.” Overcome with emotion, he looks at her and says, “I’m Keltoum’s father.” Grandfather an...
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (8)
Production and distribution (5)
- Executive Producer : Cinétévé
- Co-productions : STUDIOCANAL, Arte France Cinéma, France 2 Cinéma, Canal+ Horizons
- Foreign production companies : To Do Today, RTBF - Radio Télévision Belge de la Communauté Française
- Film exports/foreign sales : Goodfellas
- French distribution : Gemaci
Full credits (19)
- Executive Producer : Fabienne Servan-Schreiber
- Screenwriter : Mehdi Charef
- Director of Photography : Alain Levent
- Music Composer : Bernardo Sandoval
- Assistant director : Véronique Labrid
- Editor : Kenout Peltier
- Sound recordists : Ricardo Castro, Henri Morelle
- Costume designer : Maïka Guezel
- Foreign producer : Arlette Zylberberg
- Line Producer : Jean-Pierre Fayer
- Sound assistants : Hélène Lamy Au Rousseau, Seppe Van Groeningen
- Assistant Operator : Frédéric Beaugendre
- Press Attaché (film) : Florence Bory
- Assistant editor : Sarah Anderson
- Continuity supervisor : Virginie Barbay
- Production Designer : Taoufik Behi
- Casting : Patrick Hella
- Sound Mixer : Thierry Lebon
- Still Photographer : Marc Detiffe
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Production language : Arabic
- Coproducer countries : Belgium, France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
