watch TrailerFrom Abdul to Leila
a film by
Leïla Albayaty
92 min /
Documentary
Germany, Belgium, Qatar, Saudi Arabia
The odyssey of Leila, a French woman of Iraqi origin who, after an accident and years of exile, reconnects with her father — a dissident of Saddam Hussein — by learning Arabic and singing her story, driven by an irrepressible desire to live.
Cast
- Leila Albayaty
- SimoneAlbayaty
- AbdulAlbayaty
- Dalia Naous
Crew
- Scriptwriter: Leila Albayaty, David Deboudt, Zoé Nutchey
- DOP: Jonathan Bricheux
- Editor: Barbara Bossuet
Production Company(ies):
Producer(s):
Volte Films, Dérives
Producer(s):
Michel Balagué, Julie Freres
- Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival, Greece
- El Gouna Film Festival, Egypt
- Cinemania, Francophone Film Festival, Canada
- Tetouan International Mediterranean Film Festival, Morocco
- Brussels International Film Festival, Belgium
- Edinburgh Documentary Film Festival, Scotland
- Annual Aarhus Film Festival, Denmark
- Arab Film Festival of Rotterdam, Netherlands
- Zawya Cairo Week, Egypt
- Beyond Borders Film Festival, Greece
- Fidba Documentary Film Festival, Argentina
- Quinzaine of the Francophone Films, France
- Cinealma Mediterranean Film Festival, France
- Carthage Film Festival, Tunisia
- Bozar Film Festival, Belgium
- Cinema Sans Frontières, France
- Best Asian Film - Netpac Awards (Iraq) at the El Gouna Film Festival
- Grand Jury Prize at the Mediterranean Film Festival of Tetouan
- Best Documentary at the Annual Aarhus Film Festival
- Best Documentary at the Arab Film Festival of Rotterdam
- Jury Prize of the Credit Agricole at Cinealma
