A film by Leila Albayaty
Leila Albayaty
After an accident that caused memory loss and several years of exile, a young French-Iraqi woman reconnects with her family to understand who she is. Gathered in the family home in the south of France, Leila confronts her father, Abdul, with his own past, the Iraq war, and decides to learn Arabic to set to music the poems he wrote for her. Language and music gradually lead her to long-repressed memories, guiding her towards the discovery of her origins and the Arab world. This is the odyssey of a woman who sings her story to reinvent herself, driven by an irrepressible desire to live.
Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival (Greece)El Gouna Film Festival (Egypt)Cinemania, Francophone Film Festival (Canada)Tetouan International Mediterranean Film Festival (Morocco)Brussels International Film Festival (BRIFF) (Belgium)Edinburgh Documentary Film Festival (Scotland)Annual Aarhus Film Festival (Denmark)Arab Film Festival of Rotterdam (Netherlands)Zawya Cairo Week (Egypt)Beyond Borders Film Festival (Greece)Fidba Documentary Film Festival (Buenos Aires, Argentina)31st Quinzaine of the Francophone Films (Paris, France)Cinealma Mediterranean Film Festival (Nice, France)JCC - Carthage Film Festival- (Tunisia)Bozar Film Festival (Belgium)Cinema sans frontières (France)
Best Asian Film - Netpac Awards (Iraq) - El Gouna Film Festival (Egypt)Grand Jury Prize – Mediterranean Film Festival of Tetouan (Morocco)Best Documentary at the Annual Aarhus Film Festival (Denmark)Best Documentary at the Arab Film Festival of Rotterdam (Netherlands)Jury Prize of the Credit Agricole ay Cinealma (France)
