Princeton French Film Festival

Schedule:

7:30 PM: Music & Dance Pick  at Betts Auditorium, School of Architecture
Director: Mounia Meddour.
Following her multi-award-winning Papicha (2019), director Mounia Meddour comes back with a similarly touching story. Houria (Lyna Khoudri, Gagarine), 25, is a gifted dancer with dreams of joining the Algerian National Ballet. To make ends meet, she works as a cleaning lady during the day and bets in clandestine fights overnight. After winning a final, Houria is assaulted by Ali, who is determined to get his money back. When she wakes up in a hospital, unable to speak and dance. Refusing to abandon her dream, she throws herself, heart and soul, into her physical recovery. At her rehab center, she meets other women damaged by life. Houria resolves to help them transcend their wounded bodies and stand tall - by teaching them how to dance.

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