Waiting for Happiness 2002

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Drama

Before immigrating to the West, Abdallah travels to the coastal city of Nouadhibou, Mauritania, to visit his mother. Although he grew up there, Abdallah feels anything but at home in his old neighborhood: He can no longer speak the local dialect, and he wears western clothes that immediately cast him as an outsider. But, as Abdallah spends time with a young boy and an elderly electrician, he can't help but feel a sense of loss for the life he's abandoning.

Release Date 2002-05-19
Runtime 1h 31m
Directors Abderrahmane Sissako, Jacques Besse, Philippe Tourret
Producers Maji-da Abdi, Guillaume de Seille, Nicolas Royer
Writer Abderrahmane Sissako