a year 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 a section Competitive selection Out of competition Fipatel a category Aspects of French Production Aspects of European Production Special Screenings EuroFipa of honor Passions critiques 20 Years Young Artists

Southern France, 1972. In the middle of a forest, a family with few suitcases discovers the new camp where it will live. Despite the overt paternalism of the camp’s chief, the harkis have a hard life and no real freedom. It’s a life of supervised poverty but Leila, the Benamar’s eldest daughter, will have nothing of it. She has reached the age of rebellion, and the time of first love too. She considers that her father, marked by the war and exile, and used to knuckling under, owes nothing to the French, who didn’t protect them in Algeria. Said never explained why he fought with the French army. He is afraid of reprisals from the FLN in Algeria, and France. Yet he lives in the fantasy of a return to the motherland. Thanks to Leila, and with the help of a peasant couple, the Benamars leave the camp to move to a nearby farm.

France - 2006 - 1 h 30 mn - Super 16 - Colour

Director Alain Tasma Script Dalila Kerchouche, Arnaud Malherbe Camera Thierry Jault Sound Laurent Lafran Sets Jean-Marc Pacaud Editing Marie-Sophie Dubus Music Cyril Morin Cast Smaïn, Leïla Bekhti, Frédéric Pierrot, Baya Belal

Production Image et Compagnie, 24-26 quai Le Gallo, 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt, France Tél : +33 1 4723 2600 Fax : +33 1 4723 2609 E-mail : giulia.pagnini@imageetcompagnie.fr with the  participation of France 2, ARTE France

Sales France Télévisions Distribution, 1 Boulevard Victor Hugo, 75015 Paris, France Tél : +33 (0)1 5622 9000 Fax : +33 (0)1 5622 9060 E-mail : ftdi.sales@francetv.com