Synopsis

During a class discussion, Sarah, an 11-year-old French girl of Maghrebian heritage, tells the class she's going to Algeria for the school holidays to see her father. Overwhelmed by her lie, she doesn’t attend the last day of school.

Festivals: 
2013 : Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux's Festival (France).
2014 : Panorama des Cinémas du Maghreb et du Moyen-Orient (France), Mo & Friese (Hamburg, Germany), International Festival Contis (France), Goldenboll Mediterranean Short Film (Turkey), Franco Arab Film Festival of Noisi-Le-Sec (France), International Festival of Short-Film Tiznit (Morocco).

Short film, fiction, 16', 2013

Director: Elhachmia Didi-Alaoui

Shooting: from the 5th to the 10th of  November 2012 at Pau

Casting:
Sarah : Inès Chami
Chérifa : Meriem Serbah
Fatima : Dounya Hdia

With the support of the Aquitaine Region, of the General Council of the Pyrénées Atlantiques and of the Acse.
In Codirection with the Association Gindou Cinema.