Fatima (2015)

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	Year of first release: 2015
	Director: Philippe Faucon
	Actors: Soria Zeroual, Kenza Noah Aïche, Zita Hanrot
	Country: F, CDN
	Genre: Drama
	Conditions of visioning: 03.10.2016, ArteKinoFestival, Streaming, French and Arabic with French subtitles
Synopsis: Fatima (Zeroual) lives alone with her two daughters: Souad (Aïche), 15, a rebellious teenager, and Nesrine (Hanrot), 18, who is starting medical school. Fatima doesn't speak French well, a great frustration to her in her daily relations with her daughters. At the same time, her girls are her motivation and her pride as well as a source of worry to her. In order to give them the best possible future, Fatima works irregular hours as a house cleaner. One day, she falls down the stairs. While she is off work, Fatima starts writing to her daughters in Arabic, telling them everything she hasn't been able to express by talking.
Review: Finally one movie reflecting the reality of many migrants, who left their country and families to give better perspectives to their children. And working like slaves to give everything to their children. For having living in some French suburbs with many migrants, I recognised a lot of that reality. Therefore I felt this movie very authentic and very moving. A bit like the other side of Biutiful. Not the European helping the migrants but the migrant itself. Not the migrant from healthy family but the one who decides to just work with its bare hands because the better jobs are not reachable.  The second generation is confronted to both racism and kindness of people in France in their daily life. Exactly like in real life.  Also the acting gave a lot of authenticity to the apparently boring banlieue landscapes. The mother as well as the two daughers giving life to the streets there and to the bus. This was good from the acting and from the directing.
Rating: 7 /10 In this poster, you can see the complete family, the father living separated from them