Mehdi
Fall Grants 2019 - Production Stage
Yassine Qnia / Feature Narrative / France, Qatar / 100 min / Original Language: French / Interests: Comedy, Drama
Synopsis
Mehdi, Vessale and M’Barek are three thugs based in Aubervilliers. Mehdi, 30, lives alone with his mother since his former girlfriend Sarah and their son, Ilyès, left. Mehdi would like them to come back, but he doesn’t dare to talk to Sarah. M’Barek would like Mehdi to partner with him to buy a shop and walk the line. Mehdi pretends he’s not interested. In fact, he has spent his money to buy a house in Morocco for his mother, but she wants to stay in Aubervilliers. The three thugs prepare their next heist, the safe of an import-export warehouse. It goes wrong, and M’Barek turns himself into the police to save his friends. Vessale vanishes and Mehdi tries to win back Sarah’s heart. He takes care of their son, but the only thing he has to offer is to ask them to come back to his mother’s place.
Credits
- Director
- Yassine Qnia
- Screenwriter
- Yassine Qnia
- Producer
- WHY NOT PRODUCTIONS
About the Director
Yassine Qnia is a self-educated Franco-Moroccan screenwriter and director. In 2011, he shot his first short film ‘Fais Croquer’ (‘Don’t be Tight’) which was invited to many film festivals in France and abroad. Yassine shot two more short films, ‘Molii’ (2013) and ‘F430’ (2017), that won awards at several film festivals. Yassine still lives in the area of Aubervilliers (France) where he develops his film projects and works as a topographer on construction works.