MISKINA, POOR THING
| 2022 –  8 X 26′  – SERIES – COMEDY

Written by: Melha Bedia, Yoann Gromb, Xavier Lacaille, Mehdi Fikri, Paul Rotman.
Directed by: Melha Bedia, Anthony Marciano.
Starring: Melha Bedia, Shirine Boutella, Hakim Jemili, Victor Belmondo, Xavier Lacaille, Alka Balbir.
Official Competition, US Theatrical Premiere TAFFF 2022.
In French with English subtitles.
An Amazon Prime release. |

Thirty years old, overweight, no job, no husband, and still living at home… In France, they call Fara a “Tanguy“. In Italy, she’d be a bamboccioni. In her French-Algerian family, she’s a miskina, the object of pity and scorn. Yet, she’s the resourceful one, the one everyone relies on to solve all their problems. But what about her problems ? Fara misses her estranged father; she dreams of turning his rusty old van into a food truck and hitting the road.  On top of that — or maybe at the bottom of it — Fara can’t seem to admit that she’s in love with her childhood best friend, Nassim… who’s now smitten with her cousin. A deadpan sit-com romp, immersed in the colorful world of Algerian immigrant culture in France, Miskina also offers an unflinching glimpse into the psyche of a young woman who is paralyzed, projecting societal standards onto herself and deeming herself unworthy of the happiness and love that only seem to be available to others.

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