Coming

At a glance

Coming, is a 2004 Moroccan movie, and starring Amale Temmar, Habiba El Madkouri, Souad Khoyi. with a runtime of 130 minutes.

Overview

Coming (Aidoun) is a Moroccan drama that follows Saadia, a widow who resolves to leave France after her husband's death and return to Morocco with her four youngest children, leaving behind her two eldest sons who have chosen to stay. The homecoming, however, is far from peaceful. Her teenage daughter Alia — raised on European culture and addicted to cigarettes — becomes entangled in a dangerous relationship with an older man. Her son Said plots every possible route back to France, even contemplating illegal migration. And the youngest struggles to adapt to an Arabic-language school. A layered, emotionally honest portrait of immigration, identity, and the fractures that open within families caught between two worlds, Coming is a compelling Arabic-language family drama about the painful price of uprooting.

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