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PG15

DAMMI

Genre
Drama
Running time
16 minutes
Year
2023
Language
English and French
Subtitle
English
Country
France and United Kingdom
Director
Yann Mounir Demange
Bio
Producer
Alexandre Mattiussi, Gary Farkas, Clément Lepoutre, Olivier Muller, Rosa Attab, Maëva Tenneroni
Cast
Riz Ahmed, Souheila Yacoub, Yousfi Henine, Isabelle Adjani, Sandor Funtek
Scriptwriter
Yann Mounir Demange, Rosa Attab
Returning from the United Kingdom to Paris, city of his birth, a man who used to be known as Mounir (Riz Ahmed) moves through memories of his past and surreal fragments of the present, searching for connection with his estranged father (Yousfi Henine) and a sense of his misplaced Arab identity. On his journey, he meets a French Algerian woman called Hafzia (Souheila Yacoub) whose own persona suggests to him a possible way of being. Together, they drift between recognisable corners of Paris and stage sets that remind us this is a discussion of ideas, while the narrative also moves between fictional realism and a dream where dancing troupes appear out of the fog. All these fractured moments fit together to form a fascinating picture of internal strife.

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