Shouf shouf habibi!

Jan 29 2004 N/A 1h 29m
Comedy, Drama

Abdullah 'Ap' Bentarek is happy that, unlike his Uncle Yusuf who stayed in the ancestral Moroccan mountain village, his father Ali moved to the Netherlands – even though it does mean that he’ll have to deal with lousy friends and unrealistic expectations at the employment office. A light-hearted portrait of the immigrant experience and the ubiquitous intolerance of the unfamiliar in Dutch society.

Plot

Abdullah 'Ap' Bentarek is happy that, unlike his Uncle Yusuf who stayed in the ancestral Moroccan mountain village, his own father Ali moved to the Netherlands. However, the boy has lousy friends, who are his partners in crime (in the legal sense), and unrealistic expectations at the employment office. Even when a relative gets him the office job he claimed to crave in the very bank his mates dream of robbing, he messes it up in a single day and rejoins the louts. Meanwhile, his sister Leila refuses to be married off, and kid brother Driss abuses his father's ignorance of the Dutch language to pretend the school's complaints about him are compliments.

Written by

Albert Ter Heerdt, Mimoun Oaïssa

Directed by

Albert Ter Heerdt

Production Countries

Netherlands

Production Companies

Theorema Films

Languages

Nederlands

Awards

5 wins & 3 nominations

Scores
# of Votes
2,864
Average Rating
6.1 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA