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Welcome (2009)
Directed by Philippe Lioret
“Friendship has no borders. True love has no limits.”
Drama, Romance · 1h 50m
Bilal is 17 years old, a Kurdish boy from Iraq. He sets off on an adventure-filled journey across Europe. He wants to get to England to see his love who lives there. Bilal finally reaches Calais, but how do you cover 32 kilometers of the English Channel when you can't swim? The boy soon discovers that his trip won't be as easy as he imagined... The community of struggling illegal aliens in Calais
Cast
Vincent Lindon
Firat Ayverdi
Audrey Dana
Olivier Rabourdin
Derya Ayverdi
Yannick Renier
Thierry Godard
Jean-Paul Comart
Fırat Çelik
Mehmet Selim Akgul
Murat Subaşı
Behi Djanati Atai
Crew
- Director
- Philippe Lioret
- Screenplay
- Emmanuel Courcol, Olivier Adam
- Writer
- Emmanuel Courcol, Olivier Adam
- Director of Photography
- Laurent Dailland
- Original Music Composer
- Nicola Piovani
- Editor
- Andrea Sedláčková
- Producer
- Frédérique Dumas-Zajdela
Details
- Release date
- 2009-03-11
- Runtime
- 1h 50m
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Original language
- FR
- Spoken languages
- Turkish, French, English, Kurdish
- Countries
- France, United Kingdom
- Production
- Nord-Ouest Films