Beach Cafe

Beach Cafe

Original title: Café de la plage
Production: Cinétéléma; Elia Films; Les Films du Requin
Country: France
Director: Benoît Graffin
Script: Benoît Graffin; André Téchiné
Photography: Yorick Le Saux
Music: Philippe Miller
Cast: Ouassini Embarek; Jacques Nolot; Leïla Belarbi; Delia Amrani; Meryem Serbah; Mohamed El Hasnaoui; Ayoub Rachati
Year: 2001
Duration: 83
Genre: Drama
Color: Color
Original language: French
Languages available: French
Subtitles: Spanish; English

Synopsis:

Driss, a young in Tangier, befriends an impossible old. Sly, treacherous, sometimes dangerous, Fouad is the worst friend in the world you can have.
However, lucid, Driss knows what to stick with the old. His fight for this friendship is beyond a mysterious region that he still does not understand himself.

Based on the novel "Le café de la plage" by Mohammed Mrabet.

Awards:

Winner at the Sochi International Film Festival 2002: Best Actor (Ouassini Embarek)