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SALEM

By Jean-Bernard MARLIN

Drama - Completed 2022

Festivals
& Awards

Festival de Cannes 2023

Un Certain Regard

- Year of production
- 2022
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- FRANCE
- Languages
- FRENCH
- Budget
- 5 - 10 M$
- Director(s)
- Jean-Bernard MARLIN
- Cast
- Oumar MOINDJIE, Dalil ABDOURAHIM, Mohamed SOUMARE, Amal ISSIHAKA HALI , Rachid OUSSENI
- Producer(s)
- Bruno MAHON (UNITE), Romain DAUBEACH (VATOS LOCOS PRODUCTIONS)
- Synopsis
- 14-year-old Grasshoppers gang member Djibril leads a dangerous existence in a Marseille slum, along with his pregnant girlfriend Camilla who belongs to a rival gang, the Crickets. When Djibril is manipulated into killing the young Cricket Mahad, war breaks out.
  Djibril is haunted by the curse Mahad spat out as he lay dying, and begins to communicate with the spirit world. Convinced that global apocalypse is imminent, he embarks on a crazy plan to flee with Camilla and their unborn child – the only one capable of saving them all from Mahad’s malediction.
  But the law catches up with him.
  
  Now, after 12 years in prison and a secure psychiatric unit, Djibril will do whatever it takes to find his daughter and convince her to fulfil his prophecy.