Synopse
Three stories, each illustrating a different facet of Algeria – between slums and luxury apartments, rural expanses and urban moloch, the traditional and the modern. A young woman travels to her wedding with an elderly man and shares an intimate secret with the driver. The civil war of the 1990s suddenly catches up with an ambitious neurosurgeon. And a wealthy property developer witnesses a brutal beating and does nothing. Emotional and fascinating, Until The Birds Return paints a picture of a country in search of stability, of upheaval, of itself.
Regie
KARIM MOUSSAOUI (*1976) worked as a film curator in Algiers, before starting to make his own films. His mid-length work Die Tage davor (2013) won several prizes and was nominated for a César.
Info
Original Title: En attendant les hirondelles
International Title: Until the birds return
Category: Feature
Section: Freihafen
Version & Subtitles: Arabic OV with English subtitles
Director: Karim Moussaoui
Screenplay: Karim Moussaoui, Maud Ameline
Cast/Protagonists: Mohamed Djouhri, Sonia Mekkiou, Hania Amar, Mehdi Ramdani, Chawki Amari, Saadia Gacem, Hassan Kachach, Nadia Kaci, Samir El Hakim, Aure Atika
Production country: France, Qatar, Germany, Algeria
Year of Production: 2017
Length: 113 min
Producer: Nicole Gerhards, David Thion, Philippe Martin
Production company: Les Films Pelléas, NiKo Film, Prolégomènes
Cinematography: David Chambille
Editor: Thomas Marchand
Production Design: Hamid Boughrara
World Sales: mk2
