Antigone

Antigone (v.o.f.)

  • Release Date: November 8, 2019 (limited)
  • Genre: Drama

  • Director: Sophie Deraspe
  • Producer(s): Marc Daigle
  • Writer(s): Sophie Deraspe
  • Studio: Maison 4:3
  • Length: 1h 49m | Classification: G
  • Le Score Rotten Tomatoes®
    Tomatometer 96%

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Synopsis

Antigone (Nahéma Ricci), her siblings and her grandmother fled to Canada when Antigone was a child after her parents are murdered during a conflict in their home country of Algeria. Now 17, Antigone is a straight-A student in Montreal with a scholarship to attend a university of her choice.

Their lives are shattered when police wrongfully shoot her eldest brother, Étéocle (Hakim Brahimi) during the arrest of a small time drug dealer. Then they threaten to deport her other brother, Polynice (Rawad El-Zein), for his involvement in gang violence, Antigone comes up with a plan to break him out of prison before he's deported, but her actions set off a sequence of events that soon go beyond her control.

Canadian Connection  Canadian Connection: Filmed in Quebec.;

Cast

Nahéma Ricci, Rawad El-Zein, Antoine DesRochers, Paul Doucet, Hakim Brahimi, Nour Rachida Oussaada, Nour Belkhiria, Zalfa Chelhot
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