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Les Mains en l’air
Romain Goupil

A tender, engaging and bracingly militant drama from director Romain Goupil: a story of youth, solidarity and contemporary France, with Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi and a terrific cast of children. A Chechen woman named Milana, recalls the story of her near-deportation from France at the age of ten and the plan her young classmates hatched to save her. Director in person!

DIRECTOR
Romain Goupil
YEAR
2009
COUNTRY
France
RUNTIME
90 minutes
LANGUAGE
French
ORIGINAL TITLE
Les Mains en l’air

A tender, engaging and bracingly militant drama from director Romain Goupil: a story of youth, solidarity and contemporary France, with Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi and a terrific cast of children. Framed as the recollection of a Chechen woman named Milana, Goupil’s very modern coming-of-age drama chronicles her classmate Youssef’s near-deportation from France at the age of ten. Youssef’s young classmates band together and hatch a plan of action, unwilling to yield the bonds of friendship to the demands of an unforgiving law.

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