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A Better Life

Film · 2011

Yann, a cook, and Nadia, a waitress and mother of 9-year-old child, decide to risk everything on the purchase of a restaurant. With plenty of talent, energy, love and dreams, but no finance of their own, they find themselves forced into a jungle of financing and bank loans that quickly overwhelms them. To bail them out, Nadia has to take a job in Canada, while Yann is forced to stay behind to save the restaurant. Together, he and the child confront a relentless avalanche of creditors, an uncaring system and the daily grind from which there is no respite… Yann finally understands that his only chance of salvation lies in joining his lover – as well as reuniting mother and child – by following Nadia to Canada and a better life.

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The people who made it

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Behind the camera

  1. Cédric Kahndirector · writer
  2. Catherine Pailléwriter
  3. Simon Jacqueteditor
  4. Pascal Marticinematographer
  5. Gilles Sandozproducer
  6. Kristina Larsenproducer

On screen

  1. Slimane Khettabilead actor
  2. Abraham Belagalead actor
  3. Leïla Bekhtilead actor
  4. Guillaume Canetlead actor
  5. François Favratsupporting actor
  6. Brigitte Sysupporting actor
  7. Nicolas Abrahamsupporting actor
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From the people who made A Better Life

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Through the cast

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