Category: Narrative Feature
Country: France (in French with subtitles)
Year: 2009
Run Time: 90 min
Credits: Director/Writer: Romain Goupil | Cast: Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Linda Doudaeva, Jules Ritmanic

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Synopsis: A Chechen woman named Milana recalls the story of her near-deportation from France at the age of ten and the plan her young classmates hatched to save her.

"Hot-button politics and child's fantasy collide in writer-director Romain Goupil's contemporary drama HANDS UP. In this playful but troubling tale about a gang of fifth graders trying to prevent the deportation of their Chechen classmate, France's controversial treatment of illegal immigrants is filtered through the imaginative minds of kids who take on the system as if they're playing one big game they can't afford to lose." --Variety.com

Screenings (partial list): Cannes Film Festival, London Film FestivalIstanbul International Film Festival, French Film Festival UK, Tokyo International Film Festival, Montreal International Festival of New Cinema

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