Bonne mère

Nora, a cleaner in her fifties, watches over her little brood on a housing estate in northern Marseille. She worries about what is going to happen to her grown-up son Ellyes, in preventive custody for several months, and awaiting his trial for robbery with a mixture of hope and worry.

Directed by: Hafzia Herzi (France, 2016)
Cast: Halima Benhamed (Nora), Sabrina Benhamed (Sabah), Jawed Hannachi Herzi (Jawed), Mourad Tahar Boussatha (Ellyes), Malik Bouchenaf (Amir), Justine Grégory (Murielle), Maria Benhamed (Maria), Denise Giullo (Vivianne)
Genre: dramedy
Awards: official selection for "Un Certain Regard" (Cannes 2021)
Parental guidance: TV-PG