D’une pierre deux coups / Our Mother

Wednesday - 09/07/2016
8:00 PM - City Kino Wedding 
Opening Film - Followed by a Q&A with the director and her cast

75-year-old Zayane lives a quiet life in the French periphery. She has never gone outside the high-rise projects she lives in since the day she arrived from Algeria many years ago.

One day she receives notice of the passing of a French man she knew in her time as a young maid in the colonial era in her homeland. The deceased has left her a box and Zayane, without further ado, decides to take a trip to pick it up.

While she is absent for a day, her eleven children get together in her apartment, looking for an explanation for her sudden disappearance. They gradually discover a side to their mother’s life that none of them knew about until then.

In her heart warming and humorous debut Fejria Deliba tells the story of a mother, who is seen as a woman with a life before motherhood in the eyes of her children for the very first time.