FATIMA
FRANCE-CANADA / FEATURE / 2015
DIRECTOR: PHILIPPE FAUCON
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 13
4.30 - 6.00PM / TRAMSHEDS THEATRE
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Short Film
THE GOOD ROOM
CÉSAR AWARDS – BEST FILM 2016
Fatima moves from her Moroccan village at the age of 20, to live with her husband in France. Now, 20 years on, she is divorced and works as a cleaner to support her two teenage daughters. Fatima still speaks French poorly and is constantly frustrated by her daughters, her pride and joy, and her greatest source of worry. One day, she takes a fall on the stairs and, while on leave, begins to write to her daughters in Arabic, putting into words that which she has never been able to express in French.
