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Masquerades (Arabic: مسخرة, romanized: Maskhara) is a 2008 Algerian-French film directed by Lyes Salem.




Synopsis


A village in Algiers. Proud and a bluffer, Mounir wishes to be admired by all, but he has a weakness: His sister, Rym, who falls asleep anywhere. One night on the way back from the city, and quite inebriated, he shouts out to all and sunder that a rich businessman has asked for his sister's hand. By the next morning, he's the envy of all. Trapped by his own lie, Mounir changes his family's destiny.




Cast


Mounir (Lyes Salem) - Habiba's husband, and Rym's older brother
Rym (Sarah Reguieg) - Mounir's sister and object of Khliffa's affection
Khliffa (Mohamed Bouchaïb) - Mounir's best friend, in love with Rym
Habiba (Rym Takoucht) - Mounir's wife
Amine (Merouane Zmirli) - Mounir and Habiba's boy
Rédouane Lamouchi (Mourad Khan) - businessman and conman




Production


Masquerades is an Algerian-French co-production, directed by Lyes Salem.




Awards


Fespaco 2009 (Burkina Faso)
Festival Francophone de Namur 2008 (Belgium)
Festival Francophone d’Angoulême 2008 (France)
Dubai International Film Festival 2008




References



African Film Festival of Cordoba-FCAT (license CC BY-SA-3.0)




External links


Masquerades at IMDb

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