Masquerades (film)
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{{Infobox film
| name = Masquerades
| image =
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| director = Lyes Salem
| producer = Dharamsala
| writer =
| starring = Lyes Salem, Sarah Reguieg, Mohamed Bouchaïb, Rym Takoucht
| distributor =
| released = {{Film date|2008}}
| runtime = 92'
| country = Algeria
France
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| screenplay = Lyes Salem, Nathalie Saugeon
| cinematography = Pierre Cottereau
| editing = Florence Ricard
| music = Mathias Duplessy
}}
Masquerades ({{Langx|ar|مسخرة|translit=Maskhara}}) is a 2008 Algerian-French film directed by Lyes Salem.
Synopsis
A village in Algiers. Proud and a bluffer, Mounir wishes to be admired by all, but he has a weakness: His sister, Rym, who falls asleep anywhere. One night on the way back from the city, and quite inebriated, he shouts out to all and sunder that a rich businessman has asked for his sister's hand. By the next morning, he's the envy of all. Trapped by his own lie, Mounir changes his family's destiny.
Cast
- Mounir (Lyes Salem) - Habiba's husband, and Rym's older brother
- Rym (Sarah Reguieg) - Mounir's sister and object of Khliffa's affection
- Khliffa (Mohamed Bouchaïb) - Mounir's best friend, in love with Rym
- Habiba (Rym Takoucht) - Mounir's wife
- Amine (Merouane Zmirli) - Mounir and Habiba's boy
- Rédouane Lamouchi (Mourad Khan) - businessman and conman
Production
Masquerades is an Algerian-French co-production, directed by Lyes Salem.{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20180404201706/http://globalfilm.org/guides/Masquerades_DG.pdf Global Film Discussion Guide - Masquerades]}}
Awards
- Fespaco 2009 (Burkina Faso)
- Festival Francophone de Namur 2008 (Belgium)
- Festival Francophone d’Angoulême 2008 (France)
- Dubai International Film Festival 2008{{cite web | last=Bayoumi | first=Mohamed Hussein | title=5th Dubai International Film Festival | website=FIPRESCI | date=18 December 2008 | url=https://fipresci.org/festival/5th-dubai-international-film-festival/ | access-date=15 February 2023}}
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|1310654}}
{{Algerian submission for Academy Awards}}
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