''A Season in France'' (french: Une Saison en France) is a 2017 French

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directed by

Mahamat Saleh Haroun Mahamat-Saleh Haroun (; ar, محمد الصالح هارون) was born in 1961 in Abéché, Chad. He is a film director from Chad. He left Chad during the civil wars of the 1980s. Haroun is the first Chadian full-length film director. He both wri ...

. It was screened in the Special Presentations section at the

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. The film opened the Afrika Filmfestival in Louvain, Belgium in April 2018 and is distributed in the

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Cast

Sandrine Bonnaire Sandrine Bonnaire (; born 31 May 1967) is a French actress, film director and screenwriter who has appeared in more than 40 films. She won the César Award for Most Promising Actress for ''À Nos Amours'' (1983), the César Award for Best Actr ...

Eriq Ebouaney Eriq Ebouaney (born 3 October 1967) is a French actor. He is best known for his portrayal as the Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba in the 2000 film '' Lumumba'', as "Blacktie" in Brian De Palma's '' Femme Fatale'' and as "Ice" in the 2008 ...

Plot

The film is set in 2016. Abbas Mahadjir was a French teacher in the Central African Republic. He fled with his family, including his brother, from one of the civil wars that struck his country. He is haunted by the memory of his wife, killed during their flight. He now lives in France he film is set in the Paris suburbswith his two young children, Asma and Yacine, who go to school. He works in a fruit and flower market, and skips between borrowed and rented apartments. He meets Carole at the market, a florist of Polish origin with whom he establishes a relationship. When his asylum application is rejected by OFPRA (Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides), Abbas initiates an appeal. When this in turn is rejected, he is served with an 'obligation to leave' notice, within 30 days. Now without work and housing, and "''sans papiers''", Abbas and his children find refuge with Carole. His brother, who had been a philosophy lecturer in the CAR, also has his asylum application rejected, and he self-immolates in the immigration office, later dying from his injuries. At the end of the statutory 30 days, suffering extreme distress, Abbas does not file an appeal with his last hope, the chairman of the administrative tribunal. When the police summon Carole to the police station and inform her of the penalties incurred for helping foreign over-stayers, he prefers to flee with his children without leaving an address or contact. Carole tries in vain to find any trace of them in the Calais Jungle migrant camp, which had been cleared and dismantled a few hours earlier.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Season In France, A 2017 films 2017 drama films French drama films 2010s French-language films Films directed by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun Films about immigration to France 2010s French films