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Zouzou, a 30-year-old maritime engineer, hides from her family that she is leaving to track down the sardines that have vanished from Algeria.
Near Oran, six days before her younger sister's wedding, Zouzou, a 30-year-old single bio-marine engineer, still hasn't found the courage to tell her family that she’s leaving the day after the wedding to follow the migration of sardines that have mysteriously disappeared from Algerian waters. Between gossip about her single status, therapy sessions with her hairdresser-psychologist, and a friendship in crisis, will she manage to leave?

Credits

Director
Zoulikha Tahar
Screenwriter
Zoulikha Tahar, Kaouther Adimi
Producer
Hugo Legrand-Nathan, Yacine Medkour, Claire Leproust Moroko
Production Company
2Horloges

About the Director

Zoulikha Tahar
Berlinale Talents alumna Zoulikha Tahar is an Algerian filmmaker and writer. Initially trained in mechanical engineering, she shifted to artistic expression in 2015, creating video poems under the name ‘Toute Fine’. A few years later, she moved to France to study documentary filmmaking at La Femis. Her first short film, ‘A Life of Trials’, explored the representation of Algerian immigrant women in
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