“Candy is better in France,” says a small boy to his brother in a flashback scene in For My Country (Pour La France), Rachid Hami’s personal drama premiering in Horizons at the Venice Film Festival.
The boy’s Algerian family is considering moving to France, and his simplistic response sums up his innocent, optimistic view of his new home.
But — as we have already discovered — France will bring tragedy to the family in this moving account based on Hami’s memories of his late younger brother.
As a young adult, Aïssa (Shaïn Boumedine) has enlisted in the prestigious military academy of Saint-Cyr, dreaming of serving the country he has become devoted to: France.
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