Selma, 17, lives in a bourgeois and secular Berber family. When she meets Julien, a provocative young man, she realizes for the first time how the heavy rules of patriarchy affect her intimacy. As she faces her own fears to explore the power and dangers of her desire, her family crumbles and the terror of fundamentalism emerges in her country of origin. Selma must fight back to reclaim her body and become a free woman.
Presented in the Giornate degli Autori at the Venice Film Festival.
Cigare Au Miel
2020
14 years
100 min.
Fiction
France, Algeria, Belgium
France, Algeria, Belgium, international festivals, maturing, youth, family, female directors, feminism, parenthood
Colorido
Kamir Aïnouz
Kamir Aïnouz
Jeanne Lapoirie
Albertine Lastera
Zoé Adjani, Amira Casar, Lyes Salem, Louis Peres, Idir Chender, Axel Grandberger
Christine Rouxel, Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar
Eliph Productions, Willow Films
Julie Roué
Imovision
45