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Road to Istanbul

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Rachid Bouchareb delivers one of his stronger recent efforts…

Variety
  • Archive - Festival 32
  • Director: Rachid Bouchareb
  • Algeria, France, Belgium 2016
  • 93 minutes
  • French, English, Arabic
  • Subtitles in Hebrew, English

Elisabeth lives with her twenty-year-old daughter Elodie in an idyllic house in the Belgian countryside. She is not unduly concerned when Elodie does not come home one night, but when the police inform her that her daughter has left the country to join the ranks of Islamic State in Syria, she is astonished. Since no official help is forthcoming, she sets off to make her own way across the Turkish border into Syria to bring Elodie home.
Filmography: Just Like a Woman (2013), Outside the Law (2010), London River (2009), Days of Glory (2006), Cheb (1991), Bâton Rouge (1985).


  • Director Rachid Bouchareb
  • Production Jean Brehat
  • Script Olivier Lorelle, Yasmina Khadra, Zoe Galeron, Rachid Bouchareb
  • Cinematography Benoit Chamaillard
  • Editing Yannick Kergoat, Emmanuelle Jay
  • Music Eric Neveux
  • Festivals Berlin
  • Actors Astrid Whettnall, Pauline Burlet, Patricia Ide, Abel Jafri, Faouzi Saichi
  • Source Elle Driver, Paris

Road to Istanbul