THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR JEWISH FILM’S 13TH ANNUAL FILM FESTIVAL
JEWISHFILM.2010

The Wedding Song (Le Chant des Mariées)

France, 2008, 84 min, 35mm | French, Arabic, German with English Subtitles
Director/Writer: Karin Albou
New England Premiere

“A seductively fluid and tactile drama…filmed with subtle eroticism and dreamy intimacy" - The New York Times

This bold drama set in 1942 Nazi-occupied Tunisia follows the fates of inseparable 16-year-old best friends, Jewish Myriam and Muslim Nour, who find themselves on different sides of the Reich. Writer-director Albou (Le Petite Jerusalem, Cannes winner), who also co-stars as Myriam’s mother, mines her family's own North African Sephardic roots in this taboo-breaking and visually stunning film that maps the intersection of Jewish and Arab cultures and the power and fragility of female sexuality.

LINKS
www.jewishfilm.org

REVIEW
"Bodies in Motion," The New York Times