Director
Stephan Streker
Starring
Lina El Arabi, Sébastien Houbani, Babak Karimi, Neena Kulkarni, Olivier Gourmet
Certificate
15
Run Time
98 mins
Release Year
2016
Country of Origin
Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Pakistan
Language
French, Urdu
Director of Photography: Grimm Vandekerckhove
Editor: Jérôme Guiot, Mathilde Muyard
Produced by: Michaël Goldberg, Boris Van Gils
Screenplay by: Stephan Streker
Production Designer: Catherine Cosme
Sound Production: Olivier Ronval
Director Bio
Stephan Streker
P&I - Director Bio
A long-time film buff, Stephan Streker first became a journalist with the aim of meeting the people he admired most in the world – filmmakers. In this capacity, he published lengthy interviews for the Belgian press. A Wedding (Noces) is his third feature-length film following Michael Blanco (2004) and The World Belongs to Us (2013).
A Wedding (Noces)
Part of the European Perspectives Strand
A Pakistani teenager in Belgium faces deep rooted traditions with heartbreakingly poignant results in this intimate family drama about parental love versus religious duty. Based on a true story, the film follows 18-year-old Zahira (Lina El Arabi), whose relaxed, western lifestyle is suddenly threatened when her parents announce her arranged marriage. With its strong international cast and assured direction from Stephan Streker this is a moving and provocative study of a young woman’s fight to make her own choices.
