Heaven Will Wait
– Mélanie, 16 years old, lives with her mother. She likes going to school, her friends, playing the c..
Mélanie, 16 years old, lives with her mother. She likes going to school, her friends, playing the cello, and she wants to change the world. But when she meets a boy on the Internet and falls in love with him, her world changes as she is gradually recruited by Daesh. Sonia is 17 years old, and she almost did something irrevocable to “guarantee” her family a place in paradise. These teenage girls might be called Anaïs, Manon or Leila, and one day they all might go some way down the recruitment process. But can they ever come back from it?
05 Oct 2016
French, Arabic
Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar
Emilie Frèche (screenplay), Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar (screenplay)
Noémie Merlant, Naomi Amarger, Sandrine Bonnaire, Clotilde Courau
At 17, Sonia almost left her family to go jihad. She was convinced that this was the only way for her and her family to go to heaven. She finally came back to reason. Unlike Mélanie, 16 years old, raised by her mother, she was a teenager with no history, who shared her life between school, her friends and her cello lessons. But on the Internet, she began to argue with a "prince" who managed to wash her brain. Filled with guilt for not having seen anything, the parents watch helplessly with the metamorphosis of their child.
5 nominations.