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Chérif enchants Venice

Silver Lion to the best short film in the section Corto Cortissimo for the Tunisian film director Kamel Cherif who was rewarded last Saturday September 11th for his film Signe d'appartenance . A new distinction in the beginning of a promising career since Premier Noël (1999), the first short film of the director had won several prices among which we may cite the Grand Prix Canes junior 2001.

Picking up from another angle the subject of the ignorance of the culture Arab Muslim culture in Europe, Signe d'appartenance tells the story of Ali, a 8 years old child, in a Tunisian school. He is the target of the mockeries of his friends as he it is not circumcised. He runs away the day when his mother had foreseen his circumcision and takes refuge with his grandfather who will explain him the sense of this ritual Produced by the Belgian company Les Films du Plat Pays and coproduced by the French Cherika Films-Metis Productions Signe d'appartenance has equally profited from the financial support of the Fonds Sud to the audiovisual production

Fabien Lemercier