''The Blessed'', also known as ''Les Bienheureux'', is an Algerian movie that shows a family living in the aftermath of the Algerian war also known as 'the dirty war'.

Synopsis

Set in 24 hours, the movie centers on a couple who happens to be celebrating their twentieth anniversary and plans a date in a restaurant. The couple gets into a disagreement concerning whether or not to send their son abroad for schooling and they decide to ask their friends about it during the night out. During the dinner, the topic is brought up and it ends up with each of them opining their perspectives concerning the war and country's future.

Cast

Sami Bouajila Sami Bouajila (born 26 May 1966) is a French actor who has won two César Awards. Bouajila has worked and acted in two Oscar nominated films ('' Days of Glory'' and '' Outside the Law''), both directed by director Rachid Bouchareb. Early life Bo ...

* Nadia Kaci *

Adam Bessa Adam Bessa (born 1992) is a French-Tunisian actor, known for his roles in French and Hollywood productions such as Reda in '' The Blessed'' (2017), Kawa in ''Mosul'' (2019), soldier Yaz Kahn in Extraction (2020), and Abbas Naziri in the Amazon P ...

* Amine Lansari * Lyna Khoudri * Faouzi Bensaïdi * Hadjar Benmansour * Salima Abada * Abdelkader Affak * Mohamed Ali Allalou

Awards and nominations

Göteborg Film Festival Göteborg Film Festival (GFF), formerly Göteborg International Film Festival (GIFF), known in English as the Gothenburg Film Festival, formerly Gothenburg International Film Festival, is an annual film festival in Gothenburg, Sweden and the larg ...

(2018) International Debut Award ominee Sofia Djama *

AMAA The Africa Movie Academy Awards, popularly known as AMAA and The AMA Awards, is presented annually to recognize excellence among professionals working in, or non-African professionals who have contributed to, the African film industry. It was fou ...

2018 Award Best Young/Promising Actor Anine Lansari

inner Interior may refer to: Arts and media * ''Interior'' (Degas) (also known as ''The Rape''), painting by Edgar Degas * ''Interior'' (play), 1895 play by Belgian playwright Maurice Maeterlinck * ''The Interior'' (novel), by Lisa See * Interior de ...

Hamburg Film Festival FILMFEST HAMBURG is an international film festival in Hamburg, the third-largest of its kind in Germany (after Berlin and Munich). It shows national and international feature and documentary films in eleven sections. The range of the program stret ...

(2018) Political Film Award ominee Sofia Djama * Lumiere Awards, France (2018) Heike Hurst Award ominee Best First Film (Meilleur premier film) Sofia Djama * Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival (2018) Emerging Filmmaker Award

Sofia Djama *

Seattle International Film Festival The Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF), held annually in Seattle, Washington since 1976, is among the top film festivals in North America. Audiences have grown steadily; the 2006 festival had 160,000 attendees. The SIFF runs for more th ...

(2018) New Directors Competition ominee Sofia Djama *

Venice Film Festival The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival ( it, Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica della Biennale di Venezia, "International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale") is an annual film festival h ...

(2017)

Brian Award The Brian Award (in Italian language, Italian: ''Premio Brian'') is the award given since 2006 to “a film that highlights and enhances the values of rationality, respect for human rights, democracy, pluralism, promotion of individuality, freedom ...

Sofia Djama Lina Mangiacapre Award

Sofia Djama Venice Horizons Award

Best Actress Lyna Khoudri Venice Horizons Award ominee Best Film Sofia Djama

References

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