“It is important to give new freedom to the stories dedicated to men and to reinvent masculinity”
Produced by Blue Monday Productions, “A Story of Love and Desire” (103′) is the director’s second feature film, after “A Peine J’ouvre les Yeux” (2015), which received the Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival. We live the meeting of Ahmed (Sami Outalbali, “Sex education”), 18 years old, French of Algerian origin who grew up in the suburbs of Paris, and Farah (Zbeïda Belhajamor), a young Tunisian woman full of energy who has just arrived in Paris to study literature. While discovering a corpus of sensual and erotic Arabic literature that he did not suspect existed, Ahmed falls madly in love with this girl, and although literally overwhelmed by desire, he will try to resist it.
After its premiere at the 60th Semaine de la Critique, parallel section of the Cannes Film Festival (6-17 July 2021), selected in the Competition of the 14th edition of the Angoulême Francophone Film Festival (France) held from 24 to 29 August, the fiction feature film “A Story of Love and Desire” by Leyla Bouzid has just won the Valois de Diamand (Best Film Award) and the Valois for The Actor (Best Actor Award) for Sami Outal, bali and the Best Film Award.
Very moved, Leyla Bouzid expressed her joy and gratitude during the award ceremony, evoking incredible moments of emotion, finding the obscrures rooms and meeting the public.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-hj_LtkexE
“I want to share this award with my incredible actors Sami Outalbali and Zbeïda Belhajamor who carried the film and who gave themselves body and soul to this project. Thank you for loving their desiring bodies, their loving bodies,” she says, emphasizing the power of cinematographic language, that of penetrating our intimacies and shaking the codes. “It’s important to give new freedom to men’s narratives and reinvent masculinity,” she adds.
Created in 2008 and dedicated to French-language cinema, the Angoulême Francophone Film Festival takes place every year in Angoulême, Charente (France). This 2021 edition honored Algerian cinema through fiction and documentary films in its different sections.
Congratulations Leyla and definitely the release of the film in our theaters!
Rifi-JDD
