Des figues en avril
Synopsis
Des figues en avril sketches the amusing and moving portrait of Messaouda Dendoune, filmed by her son Nadir. The eighty-two-year-old's appealing, mischievious, determined, and impassioned personality is revealed as we encounter her in her two-room apartment in Île Saint-Denis, her everyday life punctuated by the invisible presence of an absent other. She has learned to live alone after her husband, Mohand, suffering from Alzheimer's, was put in a nursing home. Messaouda, lulled by the emblematic Kabyle singers she loves, such as Slimane Azem, proudly tells the tale of her France of working-class neighborhoods and her children's future.
Credits
Director (1)
Production and distribution (1)
- Executive Producer : Coq Héron Productions
Full credits (4)
- Executive Producer : Frédéric Atellian
- Editor : Stéphanie Molez
- Sound Mixer : Michele Tarantola
- Participant : Messaouda Dendoune
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Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Documentary
- Sub-genre : Portrait
- Production language : Kabyle, French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2018
- Runtime : 58 min
- Visa number : 148.369
- Visa issue date : 19/03/2018
- Production formats : HD
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- Audio format : Dolby 5.1
- Rating restrictions : None
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Theatrical release (France): April 4, 2018
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