PAPICHA

By Mounia MEDDOUR

JOUR2FETE DISTRIBUTION - as DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video

First film - Completed 2018


Festivals
& Awards

ANGOULEME 2019
COMPETITION
Cannes 2019
UN CERTAIN REGARD
    • Year of production
    • 2018
    • Genres
    • First film, Drama, True Story
    • Countries
    • FRANCE, ALGERIA, BELGIUM, QATAR
    • Languages
    • ARABIC, FRENCH
    • Budget
    • 1 - 3 M$
    • Duration
    • 106 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Mounia MEDDOUR
    • Producer(s)
    • Xavier GENS (The Ink Connection), Gregoire GENSOLLEN (The Ink Connection), Patrick ANDRÉ (HIGH SEA), Belkacem HADJADJ
    • Synopsis
    • Algeria, 1990s.
      Nedjma, an 18 year-old student passionate about fashion design refuses to let the tragic events of the Algerian Civil War to keep her from experiencing a normal life and going out at night with her friend Wassila. As the social climate becomes more conservative, she rejects the new bans set by the radicals and decides to fight for her freedom and independence by putting up a fashion show.