Short Forms Competition

El’Sardines

Thursday
27.03
The session will be available
from 14h30 and for 48 hours
world premiere
France|2025
Episode(s): 1, 2, 3 & 4
Serie: 6 x 11min

Synopsis

In Oran, six days before her sister’s wedding, Zouzou, a 30-year-old bio-marine engineer, is struggling to tell her family she’s leaving to track down the mystery of sardines disappearing from Algerian waters. Between gossip about her single status, her secretwedding preparations and therapy sessions with a “psy” hairdresser, Zouzou will she go ?

Our take

Zouzou! Where Have the Sardines Gone? In this tale of a young Algerian girl’s emancipation from her family and social environment, filmmaker and poet Zoulikha Tahar tells the funny and tender story of Zouzou, who embarks on an expedition to uncover the mystery behind the disappearance of sardines from the Oran coast.

They will be present
Zoulikha TAHAR
Director
Kaouther ADIMI
Screenwriter
Mériem AMIAR
Actress
Lina BOUMEDINE
Actress
Claire LEPROUST MAROKO
Producer
Hugo LEGRAND-NATHAN
Producer
Yacine MEDKOUR
Producer
About
Kaouther ADIMI, Zoulikha TAHAR
Zoulikha TAHAR
Pierre OBERKAMPF
Meriem AMIAR, Lina BOUMEDINE, Rabie OUADJAOUT, Dalila NOUAR, Marwa BAKIR
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