Masquerades (film)

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France

Masquerades (Arabic: مسخرة, romanized: Maskhara) is a 2008 Algerian-French film directed by Lyes Salem.

Synopsis

A village in Algiers. Proud and a bluffer, Mounir wishes to be admired by all, but he has a weakness: His sister, Rym, who falls asleep anywhere. One night on the way back from the city, and quite inebriated, he shouts out to all and sunder that a rich businessman has asked for his sister's hand. By the next morning, he's the envy of all. Trapped by his own lie, Mounir changes his family's destiny.

Cast

• Mounir (Lyes Salem) - Habiba's husband, and Rym's older brother
• Rym (Sarah Reguieg) - Mounir's sister and object of Khliffa's affection
• Khliffa (Mohamed Bouchaïb) - Mounir's best friend, in love with Rym
• Habiba (Rym Takoucht) - Mounir's wife
• Amine (Merouane Zmirli) - Mounir and Habiba's boy
• Rédouane Lamouchi (Mourad Khan) - businessman and conman

Production

Masquerades is an Algerian-French co-production, directed by Lyes Salem.^[1]

Awards

• Fespaco 2009 (Burkina Faso)
• Festival Francophone de Namur 2008 (Belgium)
• Festival Francophone d’Angoulême 2008 (France)
• Dubai International Film Festival 2008^[2]

References

• African Film Festival of Cordoba-FCAT (license CC BY-SA-3.0)

External links

• Masquerades at IMDb