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Year: 2010
Language: French
Country: France, Luxembourg
Duration: 94min
Producers: Tu Vas Voir (F)
Kasso Inc. (F)
Nicolas Steil - Iris Productions
Distribution: Memento Films (France, Andorra, Monaco)
Memento Films International (worldwide except France, Andorra, Monaco, Luxembourg)
Iris Productions (Luxembourg)
Awards and festivals
Fipresci Prize for International Criticism, Section Panorama, Berlin Film Festival - Germany - 2011
Young Jury Award at the 15th Festival des Jeunes Réalisateurs de Saint Jean de Luz - 2010
Special Jury Award for Best Male Hope for Aymen Saïdi at the 15th Festival des jeunes Réalisateurs de Saint Jean de Luz - 2010
Nominated for the Cinema Fairbinet Award at the Berlinale - Germany - 2011
Nominated for the "Prix Lumière du Meilleur Acteur" for Ayemn Saïdi - France - 2011
Section Panorama at the International Festival of Berlin - Germany - 2011
International Film Festival Trondheim Kosmorama - Norway - 2011
International Film Festival Sydney IFF - Australia - 2011
International Film Festival Taipei IFF - Taiwan - 2011
International Film Festival Galway Film Fleadth - UK - 2011
International Film Festival in Jerusalem - Israel - 2011
International Film Festival, Komische Filmnacht - Allemagne - 2011
International Film Festival Odessa IFF - Ukraine - 2011
International Film Festival Melbourne IFF - Australia - 2011
International Film Festival Milano Film Festival - Italy - 2011
International Film Festival Riga Arsenal - Latvia - 2011
International Film Festival Vancouver - Canada - 2011
International Film Festival Chicago IFF - United-States -2011
International Film Festival Calgary - Canada - 2011
International Independent Film Festival Norrkoping - Sweden - 2011
International Film Festival Antalaya - Turkey - 2011
International Film Festival Gand - 2011
International Film Festival Naples - Italy - 2011
Film Festival of Valladolid - Spain - 2011
International Film Festival Groeningen - Netherlands- 2011
International Film Festival Tübingen - Germany - 2011
International Film Festival Montréal - Canada - 2011
Festival du Cinéma Européen de Lodz - Pologne - 2011
International Film Festival Braunschweig - Allemagne - 2011
International Film Festival Noir de Manresa - Spain - 2011
International Film Festival Leeuwarden - Netherlands - 2011
Festival du Film Français - UK - 2011
International Film Festival Goa - India - 2011
Festival du Film Français Unifrance de Singapoure - Singapur - 2011
International Film Festival Chennai - India - 2011
International Film Festival Bengaluru - India - 2011
International Film Festival Belgrade - Serbia - 2011
International Film Festival Hawaï - United States- 2011
Présenté dans le cadre du Festival du Film de Paris - France - 2010
En compétition Officielle au 15ième Festival des Jeunes Réalisateurs de Saint Jean de Luz - 2010
Synopsis
This is not the way it was supposed to happen. Like every other morning, Christian Echeveria, huissier, should have been able to levy his daily distress in this parisian suburb, before going back to his comfortable home. But that's not what destiny had planned for him, as he'll get to understand it when Salem Atelhadj, 17, takes him a hostage, under his father's desperate eyes, in the tower's twelth floor which will soon be surrounded by policemen and anti-terrorists squads…