Masquerades (Mascarades)

Director
Lyes Salem
Producer
Isabelle Madelaine, Yacine Laloui
Year
2008
Spoken
Arabic
Subtitle
English
Country
Algeria
France
Length
94 min
Format
DVD
Off
Description

Mounir Mekbek lives with his family in a small village in the heart of the Algerian countryside. Very proud and sure of himself, he has only one dream- to finally be appreciated by his fellow villagers. Screwing up his carefully maintained image is his headstrong, narcoleptic sister Rym who falls asleep anywhere and whom the village is convinced will end up a spinster. One evening, Mounir returns from town drunk and announces that he's found a suitor for his sister. The fake story snowballs and snowballs until the suitor morphs into a rich, blonde Australian. The village begins preparing for the wedding in earnest - but without a bridegroom in sight.