Welcome

Mar 11, 2009

1h 50m

★ 7.2

Friendship has no borders. True love has no limits.

Overview

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

Genres

Drama

Romance

Production Companies

Nord-Ouest Films

Welcome Trailers

Cast

Simon

Vincent Lindon

Bilal

Firat Ayverdi

Marion

Audrey Dana

Le lieutenant de police

Olivier Rabourdin

Mîna

Derya Ayverdi

Alain

Yannick Renier

Bruno

Thierry Godard

Le gradé chez Simon

Jean-Paul Comart

Koban

Fırat Çelik

Zoran

Mehmet Selim Akgul

Mirko

Murat Subaşı

La mère de Mina

Behi Djanati Atai

Like the twining vines of the honeysuckle, each of the three stories in this film follow a character whose growth is impeded by the clouds of society hanging over their heads. From a Hungarian taxi driver torn between the preservation of his family and the unexpected humane responsibility found in the clandestine activities he does for profit, to the Hungarian teenager of a single mother whose idea of life goals and success seems perpetually defined by the missing figure of a role model, and finally to the young Indian Carnatic singer who amidst personal and national turmoil decides to sacrifice the one thing that defines her - her talent, Honeysuckle aims not to narrate or condescendingly offer a message, as much as it seeks to illustrate the many life directions available, and the way none of them are good, in a world severely lacking a moral center.

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