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Les Enfants des néons (1991)

Les Enfants des néons poster
Original title
Les enfants des néons
Directed by
Brahim Tsaki
Genre
drama
Country
France
Runtime
1h 27m
Rating
10.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This film follows young Maghrebians living in a suburban housing project. It shows their friendships, romantic conflicts, and daily struggles with poverty and exclusion.

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What happens

Les Enfants des néons (in English: The Neon Children) is a 1990 Franco-Algerian film directed by filmmaker Brahim Tsaki, shot around the late 1980s and early 1990s. The film deals with the lives of young Maghrebians in a suburban housing project, exploring their friendships and social struggles (exclusion, scavenging for materials, and conflicted romantic relationships). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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