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Bye-Bye (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Cannes Film Festival
Thessaloniki Film Festival

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
102 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Short Film

Movie filmed in 1995 and produced in:
Belgium ( France, Benelux )
France ( France, Benelux )
Switzerland ( Germany, Central Europe )
Tunisia ( Africa, Middle East )

Directed By:
Karim Dridi

Written By:
Karim Dridi

Actors:
Sami Bouajila ..... Ismael
Nozha Khouadra ..... Yasmine
Philippe Ambrosini ..... Ludo
Ouassini Embarek ..... Mouloud
Sofiane Madjid Mammeri ..... Rhida (as Sofiane Mammeri)
Jamila Darwich-Farah ..... La tante
Benhaïssa Ahouari ..... L'oncle
Moussa Maaskri ..... Renard
Frédéric Andrau ..... Jacky
Christian Mazucchini ..... Yvon
Bernard Llopis ..... Popaul
Marie Borowski ..... Bobo
André Neyton ..... Marcel
Emmanuel-Georges Delajoie ..... Mabrouk

Synopsis:

In this French drama, the French-born son of North African immigrants attempts to cope with his guilt after he accidentally causes a family tragedy. The tale begins as 25-year old Ismael and his teenage brother Mouloud drive into Marseille where they plan on visiting relatives before heading back to their native North African country to join their parents. Both young men consider themselves French rather than North African, and Mouloud has vowed that he will not go back to the desert. Their colorful relatives, most particularly their iron-willed aunt, help teach the fellows important lessons about life and the nature of friendship and self-accountability.

After a bitter family crisis, Ismael, the French-born son of North-African immigrants heads south from Paris with his 14 year-old brother, Mouloud, to Marseilles' Panier District, a warren of shadowed streets and secrets. Warmly welcomed by his stressed-out uncle, feisty aunt, and their large family, Ismael gets work on the docks, and despite troubling visions of the past, makes friends with one of the white men at work, and quickly settles in. Mouloud is taken under the wing of his teenaged cousin Rhida, whose dabblings as a drug dealer introduce him to a terrifying world of violence. Their aunt tries to offer guidance to the boys, but problems start crashing in from all sides. Refusing to join his parents who've returned abruptly to Tunisia, Mouloud hides out with a brutal crack dealer. While searching desperately for Mouloud, Ismael gets caught up in the racism that surrounds him, and complicates matters when he becomes involved with his best friend's beautiful Arab girlfriend.

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