A mother fights the world for her son. The world barely notices they're there.
Halim, a young man with intellectual disability, who's living with his single mother that struggles to take care of him
Acting
Tennah's non-professional performance feels startlingly real.
Direction
Benabdallah refuses to aestheticize suffering.
Director
Mohamed Benabdallah
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in Algiers with mostly non-professional actors, it exposes Algeria's threadbare disability support infrastructure without editorializing.
Director Benabdallah spent two years embedded with disability advocacy groups before filming; that research bleeds into every frame's authenticity.
DZ
