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Grands-mères de l'Islam

1980

Quiet, intimate testimony from older women recalling hard lives, moving between tears and resilience with plain documentary warmth.

Directed by
Coline Serreau
Genres
Documentary
Overview
Zora has no complaints about her husband, except that he gave her 20 children in 20 years! Kheira, who was married at 13, recounts her story through tears: the young grandmother remembers the years she spent fighting to get back the son her first husband took away from her. These touching portraits of Algerian women were filmed in Marseille.

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Directed by
Coline Serreau
Genres
Documentary
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    Themes
    • family
    • parenthood
    • gender
    • identity
    • memory
    Places
    • big city
    • home
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    • documentary
    • true story
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    • Gore none
    • Language none
    • Violence none
    • Sex none
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    Horror0
    Humour2
    Realism10
    Romance2
    Tension3
    Darkness4
    Complexity4
    Emotional weight7

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    Genres
    documentary
    Directed by
    Coline Serreau
    Cinematography
    Jacques Bouquin
    Country
    France
    Languages
    French

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