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Adil El Arbi, Bilall Fallah

Grond: Blaffende honden

Edition 2021
45' - 2021 - Dialogue: Arabic, Dutch, French
Director: Adil El Arbi, Bilall Fallah Composer: Faisal Chatar, Yello Staelens With: Yassine Ouaich, Ward Kerremans, Ahlaam Teghadouini, Tom Vermeir
Anyone who, as a Muslim, kicks the bucket in Belgium, saddles their next of kin with a delicate dilemma: “Do we bury them here or in the country of origin?” The young Ishmael ‘Smile’ Boulasmoum, who together with his sister inherits his father’s repatriation business, finds a solution: what if we bring soil from Morocco to bury our dead in it? We’re starting a business in soil! Without realizing it, they open Pandora’s ‘coffin’.
Anyone who, as a Muslim, kicks the bucket in Belgium, saddles their next of kin with a delicate dilemma: “Do we bury them here or in the country of origin?” The young Ishmael ‘Smile’ Boulasmoum, who inherits his father’s repatriation business, finds a solution: what if we bring soil from Morocco to bury our dead in it? Without realizing it, they open Pandora’s ‘coffin’.

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Credits

Director

Adil El Arbi, Bilall Fallah

Composer

Faisal Chatar, Yello Staelens

With

Yassine Ouaich, Ward Kerremans, Ahlaam Teghadouini, Tom Vermeir

Scenario

Dries Heyneman, Zouzou Ben Chikha, Wannes Cappelle

Director of Photography

Maximiliaan Dierickx

Editor

Pieter Smet

More information

Dialogue

Arabic, Dutch, French

Year

2021

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