LIKE A SON

Director: NICOLAS BOUKHRIEF

Time: 102’

Year of Production: 2024

Language: FRANSÎ

Subtitle: TIRKÎ-KURDÎ

 

*In collaboration with the French Cultural Center*

 

Synopsis

Jacques Romand is a history teacher who has lost faith in his vocation. One evening, witnessing a shopkeeper attacked by three young robbers, he catches one of the aggressors – Victor, a 14-year-old Roma boy. Moved by his plight, Jacques becomes fascinated by this “wild youth” who will, little by little, reawaken his passionate belief in education.

Biography

Nicolas Boukhrief (born June 4, 1963) is a French screenwriter, film director and actor. Boukhrief started his career as a journalist. In 1990 he created the Newspaper of the cinema on Canal+, and was the writer in chief until 1993, when he became the adviser on programming cinema. Since January 1997, he has been a programmer and presenter of My Film Club on Canal+. Along with Richard Grandpierre he was Co-person in charge for Canal Plus Ecriture, and since 1997, of the department of Eskwad production of that channel. He was Andrzej Żuławski’s assistant from 1985 to 1987. Thereafter he was a Co-scenario writer of Jean-Jacques Zilbermann’s film Not Everybody’s Lucky Enough to Have Communist Parents , and of Assassin(s), directed by Mathieu Kassovitz.