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FRENCH GIRL

When:
04/10/2010 - 17:00

Where: GRANVILLE 7 , 855 Granville Street, Vancouver, BC
See map: Google Maps

Cost:
$6 child/senior; $8 adult

Française
Souad El-Bouhati / France/Morocco / 2008 / 84 min  PG                             
Ages 13+
In French with English subtitles

“So which are you: French, African, Moroccan or Arab?” This loaded question is posed to ten-year-old Sophia, the middle daughter of a Moroccan family living in a French suburb. When her father suddenly finds himself out of work, the family must return to their homeland. Eight years later, Sofia is a precocious, questioning and headstrong university student, who rebels against Moroccan tradition and becomes consumed by an overwhelming desire to return to her beloved France.

Souad El-Bouhati's finely observed debut feature explores issues of origin, dislocation, hybrid identity, and cultural contradiction.

About the Filmmaker:
Acclaimed director Souad El-Bouhati was born in 1962 in Rabah, Morocco, and was only two weeks old when her family moved to France. She was a social worker for the first ten years of her career, and later completed a degree in film direction at Sorbonne in Paris. She began assisting directors and scriptwriters shortly after and, in 1999, directed her first short film, Salam. Française picks up on the theme of immigration explored in Salam, and marks Bouhati's directorial debut as a feature filmmaker.

Also screens on Tuesday April 13 at 12:30pm, Vancity Theatres



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Consulat général de France à Vancouver