Snackbar ( Snack bar )

Snackbar (DVD) (*)

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Alternate Title: Snack bar
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Dutch ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Subtitles )

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

Running Time:
84 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2012 and produced in:
Netherlands ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Meral Uslu

Written By:
Stan Lapinski

Actors:
Ali Cifteci ..... Ali
Nazmiye Oral ..... Pinar
Dilara Horuz ..... Nuray
Esra Horuz ..... Aysun
Ilias Addab
Aziz Akazim
Mamoun Elyounoussi
Ahmed Salah Larbi
Iliass Ojja
Ibrahim Ozalp
Ismael El Tarhabi

Synopsis:

***ATTENTION***Original language audio with English & Dutch subtitles***In a bleak suburb of Rotterdam, Ali (Ali Cifteci), a likable, middle-aged Turk, runs a snack shop with his wife and two young daughters. The kids that habituate the place are mostly wild and violent Moroccan boys who continually cause trouble for the kindhearted Ali. The kids respect him, but they can't control their violent urges. Ali wants to help them, but he first must help himself, as his gambling problem has grown of control, causing him great financial trouble, as well as rifts with his wife. The boys at the shop don't care whether they have jobs. They see no future; it's only the here and now for them. Making a fast buck from a heist or getting high are all that matter. Snackbar plays so real that it feels like a documentary. Documentarian Meral Uslu, in her first fiction film, creates true-to-life characters, leaving viewers pitying some and hoping others make it out from their pathetic existence. As in a documentary, the kids talk about their days, their pasts, their friendships, while Uslu follows, camera in hand, filming the fights, Alì always acting as mediator.

This snackbar, owned by Ali, in a suburb of Rotterdam is a refuge for the local Moroccan youth. They are wild, violent and criminal. To them Ali is like an old, trustworthy Turkish uncle, understanding, funny but also strict. But what if Ali, with his addiction to gambling jeopardizes their habitat? SNACK BAR is a film, which is as hard, funny, tragic, wild and unpredictable as life itself.

This product was added to our catalog on Saturday 13 April, 2013.