When Pigs Have Wings (film)

When Pigs Have Wings
Film poster
Directed by Sylvain Estibal
Produced by Jean-Philippe Blime
Franck Chorot
Benito Mueller
Wolfgang Müller
Jean-Jacques Neira
Hubert Toint
Jeremy Burdek
Maya Hariri
Joffrey Hutin
Nadia Khamlichi
Adrian Politowski
Gilles Waterkeyn
Marc Olla
Written by Sylvain Estibal
Starring Sasson Gabai
Music by Aqualactica
Boogie Balagan
Cinematography Romain Winding
Edited by Damien Keyeux
Production
company
Umedia
Distributed by StudioCanal
Release date
  • 21 September 2011 (2011-09-21)
Running time
 98 minutes
Country France
Belgium
Germany
Language English
Arabic
Hebrew
Budget $4 million
Box office $4.2 million[1]

When Pigs Have Wings or Le Cochon de Gaza is a 2011 French-German-Belgian comedy film directed by Sylvain Estibal.[2][3]

Plot

One day Jaafar, a fortuneless Palestinian fisherman, catches a Vietnamese pig in his fishing nets. Torn between his Muslim faith and his desire to improve the lives of his wife and himself, pay debts and the reality of the conflict, Jaafar decides to undertake a most unusual trade with a young Russian-Israeli settler, Yelena. She raises pigs and - having no male pig of her own - she asks Jafaar to bring him the seed of his pig.

Cast

  • Sasson Gabai as Jafaar
  • Baya Belal as Fatima
  • Myriam Tekaïa as Yelena
  • Gassan Abbas as Barber
  • Khalifa Natour as Hussein
  • Uri Gabay as Netsah
  • Bashir Wakil as Walid
  • Michael Sciortino as Rabbi
  • Manuel Cauchi as Abo-Zouhair
  • Ulrich Tukur as The Officer U.N.

Production

The film was shot in Malta.

Accolades

AwardCategoryRecipientResult
César Award Best First Feature Film Sylvain Estibal & Franck Chorot Won
Magritte Award Best Editing Damien Keyeux Nominated
Best Foreign Film in Coproduction Sylvain Estibal Nominated
Munich Film Festival One Future Prize Sylvain Estibal Won
Tokyo International Film Festival Audience Award Sylvain Estibal Won
Tokyo Grand Prix Sylvain Estibal Nominated

References

  1. ↑ "Le Cochon de Gaza (2011)". JPBox-Office. Retrieved 2015-08-24.
  2. ↑ ""Le cochon de Gaza" - Tout est bon dans ce cochon - Le Point". Lepoint.fr. 2011-09-20. Retrieved 2015-08-24.
  3. ↑ "When Pigs Have Wings (Le Cochon de Gaza): Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter.
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