When teenage Ibrahim lands his father with an unexpected debt, he resolves to do whatever it takes to make amends and gain his father’s respect.
Acting
Abdelrani Bendaher's watchful, wounded silence carries every scene.
Direction
Guesmi's patient camerawork lets shame breathe in real time.
Director
Samir Guesmi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Samir Guesmi cast himself as the father after struggling to find an actor who could match his specific vision of restrained Algerian-French paternal disappointment.
The film quietly maps second-generation immigrant economic anxiety onto a classic French coming-of-age structure, with Ibrahim's debt echoing real studies showing North African French youth face disproportionate barriers to formal employment.
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