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Ali is a 14-year-old teenager on the loose. To give him a proper education, his single mother sends him to a madrassa in Mali. When Ali comes back ten years later, he is a completely changed young man in his twenties. He has received a pious religious education and his deep knowledge of Islam makes him the perfect candidate to be the local Imam of his city, despite his young age and the doubts of his mother. His modern views and charisma quickly make him popular amongst his Muslim community, until his will to do good meets his new ambition.Read moreLess
Ali is a 14-year-old teenager on the loose. To give him a proper education, his single mother sends him to a madrassa in Mali. When Ali comes back ten years later, he is a completely changed young man in his twenties. He has received a pious religious education and his deep knowledge of Islam makes him the perfect candidate to be the local Imam of his city, despite his young age and the doubts of his mother. His modern views and charisma quickly make him popular amongst his Muslim community, until his will to do good meets his new ambition.
The story
Ali is a 14-year-old teenager on the loose. To give him a proper education, his single mother sends him to a madrassa in Mali. When Ali comes back ten years later, he is a completely changed young man in his twenties. He has received a pious religious education and his deep knowledge of Islam makes him the perfect candidate to be the local Imam of his city, despite his young age and the doubts of his mother. His modern views and charisma quickly make him popular amongst his Muslim community, until his will to do good meets his new ambition.
Cast & crew
Sami SlimaneCast
Abdulah Sissoko
Hady BertheMadame Diallo
Anta DiawImane
Fatim-Zahra Alami
Issaka SawadogoBoubakarExplore the crew
- Screenplay
- Kim Chapiron
- Director of Photography
- Sylvestre Dedise
- Director
- Kim Chapiron
- Screenplay
- Dominique Baumard
- Screenplay
- Ladj Ly
- Screenplay
- Ramzi Ben Sliman
- Editor
- Flora Volpelière
- Editor
- Benjamin Weill