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El’Sardines

El'Sardines


Séries Mania 2025

Short Forms Competition

World premiere
Society - Dramedy | Algeria, France | 2025

Screened episode(s) : 1, 2, 3 & 4
Format : 6 x 11min

🏆 Special Mention, Short forms Competition, Series Mania 2025

In Oran, six days before her sister’s wedding, Zouzou, a 30-year-old bio-marine engineer, is struggling to tell her family she’s leaving to track down the mystery of sardines disappearing from Algerian waters. Between gossip about her single status, her secretwedding preparations and therapy sessions with a “psy” hairdresser, Zouzou will she go ?

Our take

Zouzou! Where Have the Sardines Gone? In this tale of a young Algerian girl’s emancipation from her family and social environment, filmmaker and poet Zoulikha Tahar tells the funny and tender story of Zouzou, who embarks on an expedition to uncover the mystery behind the disappearance of sardines from the Oran coast.

  • Created By Kaouther ADIMI, Zoulikha TAHAR
  • Written By Zoulikha TAHAR
  • Directed By Zoulikha TAHAR
  • Music Pierre OBERKAMPF
  • With Meriem AMIAR, Lina BOUMEDINE, Rabie OUADJAOUT, Dalila NOUAR, Marwa BAKIR
  • Production fablabchannel, 2 HORLOGES, ARTE France

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