
Overview
The story of an immigrant woman struggling against old world traditions. Zouina leaves her homeland with her three children to join her husband in France, where he's been living for the past ten years. In a land and culture foreign to her, Zouina struggles against her mother-in-law's tyrannical hand and her husband's distrustful bitterness in an attempt to adjust to her life in exile.
Fun facts
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Nominations
Nominated for the International Submission to the Academy Awards (2002)
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Setting
Set in France
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Antoine Roch
Details
- Director
- Writer
- Yamina BenguiguiWriter
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- December 5, 2001
- Original language
- Arabic
- Countries
- Algeria, France
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In the United States
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