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Sabriya

  • Movie
  • 1997
  • 25m

Directed by Abderrahmane Sissako

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This film explores the impact of the modern world on the traditional male society of the Maghreb. It is a film about men who prefer to live life as an abstract game and the free-spirited woman who changes everything. Said and Youssef have fulfilled a life-long dream by opening a "chess bar" in the middle of the desert. They sit around drinking palm wine, playing board games and composing love poetry to imaginary women. All this changes with the arrival of Sarah, a sexually liberated, uninhibited metisse who easily lures Youssef into an affair. Soon he is dreaming not about chess but about opening a coffee bar in Genoa. The friendship is destroyed, the bar sold. Youssef, dressed in Western clothes, waits to leave with Sarah; will she show up? Said boards a train and sits down next to a Westernized woman bearing a resemblance to Sarah

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Cast and crew

  • Fethi Akkari

    Fethi AkkariBarman

  • Chawki Bouglia

    Chawki BougliaYoussef

  • Rim TurkiSarra

  • Nabil ChahedSaid

  • Abdellfattah AbdellatifMatches Man

Director
Abderrahmane Sissako
Cinematography
Youssef Ben Youssef