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By Karim SAYAD

FILMOTOR - as SALES All rights, World

Documentary - Completed 2019


Festivals
& Awards

Toronto - TIFF 2019
TIFF Docs
TIFF 2019
Thessaloniki Documentary Festival (online) 2021
Official Selection
    • Year of production
    • 2019
    • Genres
    • Documentary, True Story, Biography
    • Countries
    • SWITZERLAND, QATAR
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH, ARABIC
    • Budget
    • 0.3 - 0.6 M$
    • Duration
    • 82 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Karim SAYAD
    • Producer(s)
    • Joëlle BERTOSSA (Close Up Films), Flavia ZANON (Close Up Films)
    • Synopsis
    • 2001, Fahed arrives on UK soil overflowing with aspirations and dreams...
      2018, in the thrall of a mid-life crisis, he must now make a decision. Will he continue his humble lifestyle working 50-hours weeks between the take-away and the factory, or will he return to Algeria, a country he fled in the hope of making a better life for himself?