Movie
2016 Drama
1h 45min
| Original title | Le Ciel attendra |
| Original lang. | French, Arabic |
| Country | France |
When 17-year-old Sonia is caught trying to leave France to join the jihad in Syria, her parents are forced to become her jailers. Meanwhile, Mélanie, a quiet, studious 15-year-old, makes a new friend on Facebook and is drawn into radical Islam. This alarming but necessary drama thoughtfully tackles a disturbing phenomenon in contemporary France: the radicalization of teenage girls by online predators. Writer-director Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar ably parallels the two young women's stories -- one in the process of being radicalized, the other on the painful road to recovery -- to reveal how jihadists prey on teenagers' personal insecurities and general sense of injustice to indoctrinate and recruit them.
| Directed by | Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar |
| Written by | Emilie Frèche, Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar |
Starring
Noémie Merlant
Sandrine Bonnaire
Ariane Ascaride
Yvan Attal
Naomi Amarger
Clotilde Courau
Zinedine Soualem
Dounia Bouzar
Bruno Garcia
Marine Béliard
Samia Sassi
Manu Rui Silva
Karine Dogliani
Valérie de Monza
Bouzid Ghezali
Agnès Regolo
Mourad Frarema
Maya Bogdanovic
Yamina Meghraoui
Souad Arsane
Camille Aguilar
Margaux Fabre
Manon Tournier
Arauna Bernheim-Dennery
Jeanne Cellard
Emmanuelle Bougerol
Anne Anglès
Foad El Bahty
Sylvie Turowski
Robin Clive
Stéphane Bak
Sofia Lesaffre
Stéphane Dubet
Hélène Stadnicki
Léo Poulet
Violette Barratier
Lauriane Riquet
Elisa Noyez
Sandra Codrean
Lauréna Thellier
Najaa Bensaid
Xavier Maly
Akim Mebtouch
Catherine Artigala
Jean-Christophe Brétigniere
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