Une Vie Meilleure

A Better Life
Director
Cédric Kanh
Country
France, Canada
Year
2011
Genre
Drama
Scriptwriters
Cedric Kahn / Catherine Paille
Cast
Guillaume Canet / Leila Bekhti / Slimane Khettabi
Production
Les Films du Lendemain
http://www.uneviemeilleure-lefilm.com/

Storyline

Yann, a cook, and Nadia, a waitress and mother of 9-year-old boy, decide to risk everything on the purchase of a restaurant.

With plenty of talent, energy, love and dreams, but no finance of their own, they find themselves pushed into a jungle of financing and bank loans that quickly overwhelms them.

To bail them out, Nadia has to take a job in Canada, while Yann is forced to stay behind to save the restaurant. Together, he and the boy confront a relentless avalanche of creditors, an uncaring system and the daily grind from which there

is no respite... until Yann finally understands that his only chance of salvation lies in joining his lover – as well as reuniting mother and child – and following Nadia to Canada and a better life.

Festivals & Academy awards and others

Toronto International Film Festival 2011
Special Presentation
Rome Film Festival 2011
Out of Competition

Releases

France (4 of January 2012)