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France

2009

110 Min
Color
2.35:1
English, Kurdish, French
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DIR Philippe Lioret

EXEC Christophe Rossignon

SCR Philippe Lioret, Emmanuel Courcol, Olivier Adam

DP Laurent Dailland

CAST Vincent Lindon, Firat Ayverdi, Audrey Dana, Patrick Ligardes, Thierry Godard, Derya Ayverdi, Selim Akgul, Firat Celik, Murat Subasi, Olivier Rabourdin, Yannick Renier, Behi Djanati Atai

ED Andrea Sedlácková

MUSIC Nicola Piovani, Wojciech Kilar, Armand Amar

SOUND Pierre Mertens, Laurent Quaglio, Eric Tisserand

Berlinale (Panorama Special): Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Karlovy Vary (Horizons)

Synopsis

Bilal is a 17-year-old Kurdish boy from Iraq. He sets off on an adventure-filled journey across Europe. He wants to get to England to see his love who lives there. Bilal finally reaches Calais, but how do you cover 32 kilometers of the English Channel when you can’t swim? The boy soon discovers that his trip won’t be as easy as he imagined… The community of struggling illegal aliens in Calais is captured with authenticity, from the point of view of people who arrived there knowing nothing about France. This immigrant drama, with wonderful performances by the actors, is a strong story which uses documentary austerity and minimalist style to create a great emotional impact. —IMDb

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Philippe Lioret

PHILIPPE LIORET (1955, Paris) started by being responsible for sound in more than 20 films. In 1994 he made the comedy TOMBÉS DU CIEL, which won him two awards for screenplay and art direction at the San Sebastian Film Festival. After two films starring Sandrine Bonnaire, MADEMOISELLE (Jury Grand Prix at the Moscow Film Festival) and L’ÉQUIPIER (three Césars Award nominations), he was consecrated with JE VAIS BIEN, NE T’EN FAIS PAS (nine Césars Award nominations and a Golden Star for screenplay). 2009 sees the turn of WELCOME (nine Césars Award nominations) presented at the Berlin Film Festival (Prix Europa), and consequently at other festivals, including that of Durban (Awards for best director and best actor). This film also won the Premio Lux in 2009. —venice-days.com 

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Michael Harbour

13Jan12

Wonderful little film about young love, and divorce, and immigration, and crushed hopes.

Sancar Seckiner

24Jun11

http://www.sensesofcinema.com/2011/feature-articles/welcome-an-insight-into-the-landscape-of-contemporary-french-consciousness/

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Unpleasant take on modern refugee policy

By Товарищ Петя. on August 13, 2010

In Philippe Lioret’s latest film Welcome the title is obviously a contradiction, but the meaning of the contradiction itself is just as obvious. It’s about illegal aliens in Europe, in this…  read review

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