Fatima

Directed by Philippe Faucon
Year: 2015
Country: France
Language: French and Arabic

Fatima lives with her two teenage daughters and works cleaning jobs to pay their way through school. Inspired by a true story and the poetry of the North African writer Fatima Elayoubi, who immigrated knowing very little French and slowly taught herself the language. A patient, reflective study of a woman pressured by her children and her neighbors alike to assimilate into a culture of which she's wary. Despite the display of everyday racism, both veiled and overt; internal domestic disputes and external gestures of inhospitality, FATIMA offers an uplifting experience and one of recent French cinema's most trenchant and moving portraits of immigrant experience.

Cast
Chawki Amari
Kenza Noah Aiche
Zita Hanrot
Soria Zeroual

Crew
Directed by Philippe Faucon