Samia

Overview

Samia is a teenage girl belonging to a family of Algerian Muslims who have settled in the southern French town of Marseilles. Although lured by the pleasures and opportunities that contemporary Western culture offers her, Samia is continually restrained by her family. Naturally, they expect her to follow their traditions to the letter and, for a woman, this means staying at home all day looking after their men folk. In the end, Samia has no option but to rebel against her family and find a new life for herself…

Directed by Philippe Faucon

Top cast

Lynda Benahouda

Samia

M

Mohamed Chabane-Chaouche

Yacine

K

Kheira Oualhaci

Halima, la mère

N

Nadia El Koutei

Amel, la grande soeur

Y

Yamina Amri

La tante

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Lakhdar Smati

Mohamed

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Farida Abdallah Hadj

Farida

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Naïma Abdelhamid

Naïma

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Amel Sahnoune

Kathia

Marie Rivière

La conseillère d'orientation

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