Fatima
(DVD)

Freely adapted from the books Prir̈e l̉a lune and Enfin, je peux marcher seule by Fatima Elayoubi.

Originally released as a motion picture in 2015.

Wide screen (1.85:1, 16x9).

Special features: Interview with director; trailer.

Director of photography, Laurent Fňart ; editor, Sophie Mandonnet ; original music, Robert-Marcel Lepage ; costume designer, Nezha Rahile.

Soria Zřoual, Zita Hanrot, Kenza-Noah Ac̐he, Chawki Amari, Isabelle Candelier.

Named the best French film of 2016 by the Cšar Awards, Fatima is a brilliant and moving tale about what it means to be an immigrant today. It was inspired by the life of North African poet Fatima Elayoubi, who immigrated knowing little French and slowly taught herself the language. Fatima (Soria Zeroual) lives with her two teenage daughters in Lyon, and works cleaning jobs to pay their way through school. She is a woman pressured by her children and her neighbors alike to assimilate into a culture of which she's wary. Fatima is a complex, uplifting film that is one of recent French cinema's most trenchant and memorable portraits of the contemporary immigrant experience--Container.

DVD, NTSC, region 1; widescreen (1.85:1 aspect ratio); Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo.

In French and Arabic with optional English subtitles.

Cšar Awards, 2016: Best Film, Best Adaptation, Best Female Newcomer ; Prix Louis-Delluc, 2015: Best Film