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France | 2009
115 minutes
Director: Philippe Lioret
Producer: Christophe Rossignon
Screenplay: Philippe Lioret, Emmanuel Courcol, Olivier Adam
Photography: Laurent Dailland
Editor: Andréa Sedlackova
Production designer: Yves Brover
Costume designer: Fanny Drouin
Music: Nicola Piovani, Wojciech Kilar, Armand Amar
With: Vincent Lindon, Firat Ayverdi, Audrey Dana, Derya Ayverdi, Thierry Godard, Selim Akgül, Firat Celik, Murat Subasi, Olivier Rabourdin, Yannick Renier
Festivals: Berlin, Karlovy Vary 2009

In French, English and Kurdish, with English subtitles

Censors rating M contains violence and offensive language

Welcome is an emotionally loaded drama about the father-son bond that develops between a listless, recently divorced Calais swim instructor and a Kurdish boy who desperately wants to learn to swim. Dramatising the stark inhumanity of France’s laws regarding illegal immigrants and those who offer them shelter, Welcome was a surprise box office success in France – and the subject of much public debate. The excellent Vincent Lindon is the latest incarnation of a uniquely French movie type; the sexy, soulful, no-frills working guy. You can be moved by his Simon, even while you see just how his wife (Audrey Dana) might have yearned for someone a little more forward-looking. A superb director of actors, Philippe Lioret blends his stars with Kurdish amateurs, drawing a potently affecting performance from 17-year old Firat Ayverdi as the ardent, focused Bilal.

“Welcome makes audiences care deeply for its absorbing characters.” — Jay Weissberg, Variety



“It’s a current and universal parable on the very dark

 

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