Antigone
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| Director: | Sophie Deraspe |
| Producer: | Marc Daigle |
| Studio: | Maison 4:3 |
| Cast: | Nahéma Ricci, Rawad El-Zein, Antoine DesRochers, Paul Doucet, Hakim Brahimi, Nour Rachida Oussaada, Nour Belkhiria, Zalfa Chelhot |
| Genre: | Drama |
| Length: | 109 minutes |
Antigone Synopsis
Antigone (Nahéma Ricci), her siblings and her grandmother fled to Canada when Antigone was a child after her parents are murdered during a conflict in their home country of Algeria. Now 17, Antigone is a straight-A student in Montreal with a scholarship to attend a university of her choice.
Their lives are shattered when police wrongfully shoot her eldest brother, Étéocle (Hakim Brahimi) during the arrest of a small time drug dealer. Then they threaten to deport her other brother, Polynice (Rawad El-Zein), for his involvement in gang violence, Antigone comes up with a plan to break him out of prison before he's deported, but her actions set off a sequence of events that soon go beyond her control.