KHAMSA (Tunisie, 2008)


Couleur – 108’
Direction: Karim Dridi
Screenplay: Karim Dridi
Director of Photography: Antoine Monod
Sound: Michel Brethez, Jean Gargonne
Editing: Lise Beaulieu
Cast: Marc Cortes, Raymond Adam, Mehdi Laribi, Simon Abkarian
Production: MIRAK FILMS, ARTE France Cinéma



Synopsis

Placed in a foster family, Marco, 11, runs away to find the gypsy camp where he was born. Nothing seems to have changed: diving in the shipyard, the night-time card parties… With his cousin, Tony, a dwarf, Marco dreams to make his fortune in rooster fights. While waiting, they horse around with Coyote, his childhood friend, and Rachitique, a young Arab from a nearby neighborhood. But even when he kisses the small hand of Fatma he wears around his neck, for protection and good fortune, it doesn’t give him any… Marco only wants one thing: to find his place in a world where he is an outsider.


Le réalisateur

Born in 1961 in Tunis of a Tunisian father and French mother, Karim Dridi began making amateur films at the age of 12. He has been directing and producing short films since 1982. «Zoe la Boxeuse» won the Grand Prize at the Grenoble Film Festival in 1990.
His credits include «Bye Bye», «Pigalle» and «Hors jeu».


Contacts

REZO FILMS
29, rue du Faubourg Poissonnière, 75009 Paris / France
Tél. : + 33 1 42 46 46 30 - Fax : + 33 1 42 46 40 82
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