BITTER SEED
( working title)
SYNOPSIS
Mohammed-Lamine, an Algerian-born taxi driver in Paris decides to Frenchify his name. His filmmaker daughter Camélia seeks to understand why.
She initiates a conversation about Algeria and what it means to be French and Algerian. As two worldviews collide, an imaginary country emerges between the lines.
FEATURE FILM
FRANCE, ALGERIA
80 minutes
WRITTEN BY :
DOP :
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PRODUCTION :
CAMÉLIA GADHGADHI
NINA BERNFELD
ARNAUD CALVAR
ANTOINE GOLDET
BOUALEM ZIANI
DIRECTED BY
CAMÉLIA GADHGADHI
Camélia Gadhgadhi is a 23 year old Franco-Algerian filmmaker born in the suburbs of Paris. She obtained a master’s degree in cinema and worked on a number of film sets before writing, directing and producing UNZARI, her first short film (distributed by Messina Films, in Tokyo in 2019.
She currently works as a writing coordinator and assistant showrunner on the first French Apple TV show, which is in pre-production. She is also in the final steps of post-production for La Nuit, her second short film, which she self-produced and shot in Paris in 2021.
