When Pigs Have Wings (film)

When Pigs Have Wings
Film poster
Directed by	Sylvain Estibal
Produced by	Jean-Philippe Blime Franck Chorot Benito Mueller Wolfgang Müller Jean-Jacques Neira Hubert Toint Jeremy Burdek Maya Hariri Joffrey Hutin Nadia Khamlichi Adrian Politowski Gilles Waterkeyn Marc Olla
Written by	Sylvain Estibal
Starring	Sasson Gabai
Music by	Aqualactica Boogie Balagan
Cinematography	Romain Winding
Edited by	Damien Keyeux
Production company	Umedia
Distributed by	StudioCanal
Release dates	21 September 2011 (2011-09-21)
Running time	98 minutes
Country	France Belgium Germany
Language	English Arabic Hebrew
Budget	$4 million
Box office	$4.2 million^[1]

When Pigs Have Wings or Le Cochon de Gaza is a 2011 French-German-Belgian comedy film directed by Sylvain Estibal.^[2]^[3]

Plot

One day Jaafar, a fortuneless Palestinian fisherman, catches his nets a Vietnamese pig. Torn between his Muslim faith and his desire to improve the lives of his wife and himself, pay debts and the reality of the conflict, Jaafar decides to undertake a most unusual trade with a young Russian-Israeli settler, Yelena. She raises pigs and - having no male pig of her own - she asks Jafaar to bring him the seed of his pig

Cast

Sasson Gabai as Jafaar
Baya Belal as Fatima
Myriam Tekaïa as Yelena
Gassan Abbas as Barber
Khalifa Natour as Hussein
Uri Gabay as Netsah
Bashir Wakil as Walid
Michael Sciortino as Rabbi
Manuel Cauchi as Abo-Zouhair
Ulrich Tukur as The Officer U.N.

Production

The film was shot in Malta.

Accolades

Award	Category	Recipient	Result
César Award	Best First Feature Film	Sylvain Estibal & Franck Chorot	Won
Magritte Award	Best Editing	Damien Keyeux	Nominated
Magritte Award	Best Foreign Film in Coproduction	Sylvain Estibal	Nominated
Munich Film Festival	One Future Prize	Sylvain Estibal	Won
Tokyo International Film Festival	Audience Award	Sylvain Estibal	Won
Tokyo International Film Festival	Tokyo Grand Prix	Sylvain Estibal	Nominated

References

↑ "Le Cochon de Gaza (2011)". JPBox-Office. Retrieved 2015-08-24.
↑ ""Le cochon de Gaza" - Tout est bon dans ce cochon - Le Point". Lepoint.fr. 2011-09-20. Retrieved 2015-08-24.
↑ "When Pigs Have Wings (Le Cochon de Gaza): Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter.

External links

César Award for Best First Feature Film

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