73rd San Sebastian Festival - 19/27 September 2025
73SSIFF - 19/27 September 2025
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L'attente des femmes / WOMEN'S EXPECTATIONS
Naguel Belouad
Algeria 83 m.
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Married to Nakla and Gamra, who have failed to bear him children, the aging Brahim decides to marry Fadah, a beautiful, healthy twenty-year-old woman, hoping a third wife will provide him with an heir. Forced to marry Brahim, Fadah joins the other two wives in a household cut off from the rest of the world. Under no condition can the women leave the house. Only Brahim has contact with the community... Until the day he hires a young man, Hemna, to do work on the property. A few months later, Fadah shows all the signs of a pregnant woman.
Director
Naguel Belouad
Screenplay
Naguel Belouad
Photography
Bachir Selami
Edition
Christine Maffre, Joëlle Dufour
Music
Richard Shorr
Cast
Tounes Ait Ali, Sonia Mekkiou, Doudja Achachi, Abdallah Bouzida
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Running Time
83 m.
Country
Algeria
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