Karim, Youssef and Cherif, three youths from the housing projects in the Paris suburbs, are recruited by a French agent of a Jihadist movement to fight the infidels in Iraq. A few months later, the three Arab-French boys arrive separately in Syrian training camps, and then find themselves in Iraq. Those who don't speak Arabic fluently have trouble making themselves understood but all experience total culture shock: nothing in France had prepared them for the chaos of war. Back in France, with Hugo Bessières, diplomat with the Foreign Affairs Ministry's Centre d'analyses et de previsions, we follow the course of French foreign policy on the eve and during the first phase of the Iraqi conflict. In Iraq, Delphine, who has spent more than ten years with an NGO developing a drinking water system in Baghdad, is kidnapped by a group of Bath opponents and "sold" as a hostage to Sunni Jihadists, among whom we find our three young French combatants. Bessières will do everything in his power to negotiate the release of the young woman...

France - 2006 - 1 h 33 mn + 1 h 42 mn - HD DV - Colour

Director
Félix Olivier

Script
Richard Schlesinger, Félix Olivier

based on
Richard Schlesinger

Camera
Richard Dallett

Sound
Jérôme Ayasse

Sets
Janou Shammas

Costumes
Tess Hammami

Editing
Yen Le Van

Cast
Adel Bencherif, Marianne Denicourt, Thierry Frémont, Slimane Hadjar, Saïd Taghmaoui, Kamel Abdelli, Ugo Allaix, Serge Avedikian, Aki Avni, Yassine Azzouz

"JIHAD" written and directed by Félix OLIVIER et Richard SHLESINGER is about the crossed destinies of three young men enroled by salafists leading them from Paris suburbs to Baghdad, of a French secret agent discovering his hierarchy diversions in Iraq and of a humanitarian executive fighting the corruption in her own organization.

"JIHAD" has been produced for CANAL+ (France) and broadcasted in two special prime time slots on November 30 and December 1, 2006.

NOE PRODUCTIONS INT. has mandated THE BOX DISTRIBUTION for the international distribution of its new outstanding mini-series "JIHAD" (2x90minutes).

NOE PRODUCTIONS INT is the producer of "L'ESQUIVE" (Games of Love and Chance) by d'Abdelatif KECHICHE, winner of 4 Césars in 2005.

THE BOX DISTRIBUTION is a international distribution company recently created by Frédérik Rangé and Jerôme Reygner-Khalfon and focusing on European programming.


"We are very happy and proud to launch the international distribution of THE BOX DISTRIBUTION with a mini-series with such powerful and international content as "JIHAD".

Production
Noe Productions,
69, rue de la Tour,
75116 Paris, France
Tél : +33 (0)1 4505 2435
Fax : +33 (0)1 4505 2445
E-mail : info@noe-productions.fr

with the participation of
Canal+, Radiotélévision belge de la communauté française, BeTV

Sales
The Box Distribution,
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75016 Paris, France
Tél : +33 (0)1 4463 1571
Fax : +33 (0)1 4995 9328
E-mail : sales@theboxdistribution.com


2007 | FIPA (Festival International des Programmes Audiovisuels | BIARRITZ, France
* Aspects of French Production
www.fipa.tm.fr/en/programs/2007/djihad-16713.htm