In a small mosque in the south-west of France, a child's drawing of a masked character is controversial: superhero or jihadist? Amine, an imam by profession, will have to deal with the unmanageable.


When Amine, a brilliant professor of the history of civilisations in Bordeaux, is courted by a university in Boston, he decides to move to the United States with his wife and children. But first he has to settle the sale of a family home in Saint-Marsain, a village in the south-west where he grew up and where his father, Rachid, president of the local rugby club, and his mother-in-law still live. When he came across Jemel, a childhood friend who had become a butcher and imam of the little mosque of Saint-Marsain, Amine discovered that his father had bought the walls of the premises to convert it into a disco to celebrate the end of matches, effectively condemning the mosque. Furious with his father, with whom he has a conflictual relationship, Amine has the sale of the house cancelled. When the faithful discover that Jemel is acting as an underhand for Rachid, they take away his title of imam and start looking for a replacement. Wouldn't Amine be the ideal candidate?

Self-mockery
In order to write this comedy, which takes a self-mocking approach to the subject of relations between France and Islam, Zangro, a producer and filmmaker from Bordeaux, has surrounded himself with brilliant scriptwriters : Nacim Mehtar (The End of Summer), the duo of Ainsi soient-ils Vincent Poymiro and David Elkaïm, but also an imam, Fouad Saanadi. Led by Lyes Salem (L'Oranais, Le grand bazar), Ramdam, originally the pilot of a series of twenty-six minutes that won an award at the 2017 La Rochelle Festival, explores with finesse the complex family relationships when the transmission between generations of a plural identity is not experienced by all in the same way.

Telefilm of Zangro (France, 2019, 1h30mn) - Screenplay: Zangro, Nacim Mehtar, Fouad Saanadi with the collaboration of Vincent Poymiro - Consultant : David Elkaïm - With : Lyes Salem (Amine), Djemel Barek (Jemel), Yamin Dib (Samir), Sid Ahmed Agoumi (Rachid), Farida Ouchani (Mme Tarifa), Thaïs Kirby (Nadia), Michèle Brousse (Monique) - Coproduction : ARTE France, Bien ou Bien Productions


Executive Producer: Zangro
Scriptwriters : Zangro, Félix Doutrin
Sound engineer: Philippe Garnier
Production manager: Olivier Sarfati
Sound editing: Rodolphe Kay
Decorator : Laurent Cavero
Costumes: Annie Morel Pâris
Mixing : Emmanuel Desguez
Assistant director: Nicolas Vray
Director of photography : Yann Maritaud
Assistant operator: Agnès Jeanneau
Editing: Vanessa Basté, Suzanne Van Boxsom
Script : Delphine Régnier-Cavero
Author of the music: Niko Noki
Head make-up artists : Romy Barnes-Nicolas, Elsa Gendre