Country: France
Year: 2000
Duration: 18'
In a small, rural town in France, a family composed of husband, wife and son are about to eat lunch. But they realize that there is no more bread. The father goes out to buy some, but time passes and he doesn't come home. So the mother, then, decides to go out.
"This death, which I refer to in the screenplay, reminds me of my childhood in Palestine. It was a childhood devastated by the sudden death of our loved ones. Nobody at the time, not even my mother, who was very close to me, could help me understand and accept these deaths as an integral part of my life" (Hiam Abbass).
Biography
film director
Hiam Abbass
BIOGRAPHY Hiam Abbass was born in Nazareth, Palestine, in 1960. She studied photography in Haifa and then moved to Jerusalem to follow courses at the ElHakawati theater. From 1983 to 1986 she worked at that same theater as both actress and photographer. In 1987 she began working at the children's theater Beit ElKarma in Haifa. In 1989 she moved to France, where she has acted in many full-length and short films. Le Pain marks her debut as a director.
FILMOGRAFIA
Le Pain (2000).
Cast
& Credits
Regia, soggetto e sceneggiatura: Hiam Abbass.
Director of photography: Aurélien Devaux.
Art director: Brigitte Brassart.
Editor: Agnès Mouchel.
Sound: Cyril Moisson.
Cast and characters: Hiam Abbass (la madre), Jules Sitruk (il figlio), Zinedine Soualem (il padre).
Produzione e vendita all'estero: Florence Auffret per Les Films de la Grande Ourse, 12 rue de la Forge Royale, 75018 Paris, France, tel. +33-1-43565257, fax +33-1-43565258, e-mail lagrandeourse@libertysurf.fr.
Director of photography: Aurélien Devaux.
Art director: Brigitte Brassart.
Editor: Agnès Mouchel.
Sound: Cyril Moisson.
Cast and characters: Hiam Abbass (la madre), Jules Sitruk (il figlio), Zinedine Soualem (il padre).
Produzione e vendita all'estero: Florence Auffret per Les Films de la Grande Ourse, 12 rue de la Forge Royale, 75018 Paris, France, tel. +33-1-43565257, fax +33-1-43565258, e-mail lagrandeourse@libertysurf.fr.