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Young Tiger
BÉBÉ TIGRE
2015 • Films • Drama/1 h 27 mins
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After being illegally smuggled into France on the promise of gaining employment as a construction worker, with the hope to support his family in India, 15-year old Many (Harmandeep Palminder) finds himself unexpectedly handed over to the hands of the French State who by law, must enrol him in school and find him a foster family.
Two years later, Many has been successfully assimilated into the French Sikh community and is flourishing at school. Education has given Many a new-found sense of entrepreneurship that he uses to gain employment with the smugglers, setting him on a conflicting moral path that challenges his values of family, religion and his sense of self.
Country
France
Language
French
Details
After being illegally smuggled into France on the promise of gaining employment as a construction worker, with the hope to support his family in India, 15-year old Many (Harmandeep Palminder) finds himself unexpectedly handed over to the hands of the French State who by law, must enrol him in school and find him a foster family.
Two years later, Many has been successfully assimilated into the French Sikh community and is flourishing at school. Education has given Many a new-found sense of entrepreneurship that he uses to gain employment with the smugglers, setting him on a conflicting moral path that challenges his values of family, religion and his sense of self.
Country
France
Language
French
Accolades
Best First Film Nominee, Heike Hurst Award
Lumiere Awards France 2016
Best First Film Nominee, Heike Hurst Award
Lumiere Awards France 2016
Best First Film Nominee, Heike Hurst Award
Lumiere Awards France 2016
Critics
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...'...gripping portrait of a young man scraping by on the fringes of French society.'
The Hollywood Reporter
Meet the Cast
Meet the Cast
Elisabeth Lando
Harmandeep Palminder
Director's Statement
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I like cinema that reveals a number of ambivalent positions. I want to make movies that explore blurred areas and the ambivalence that can be found in individuals...
... I wanted my hero to have to make a choice, and a moral choice is a film noir code. In choosing to confront a thriller, I myself wanted to take on the unbending codes of
that specific genre...
...during my research, the image of the tiger quickly came to me: An instinctive animal thatprotects his own. The baby has teeth, claws, but he doesn’t know how to use them yet. This is the story the film tells: Many is a young tiger who has to try out his claws for the first time.
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