Welcome

Welcome

  • Director: Philippe Lioret
  • Writer: Philippe Lioret,Emmanuel Courcol,Olivier Adam
  • Countries of origin: France
  • Language: French, Kurdish, English, Turkish
  • Release date: March 11, 2009
  • Runtime: 1 hour 50 minutes
  • Sound mix: DTS, Dolby Digital
  • Aspect ratio: 2.35 : 1
  • Also known as: Hoşgeldiniz
  • "Welcome" is a feature film released by Mars Films, directed by Philippe Lioret , co-starring Vincent Lindon , Fila Ayvedi, Audrey Dana , etc. The film was released in Germany on February 7, 2009.
    The film tells the story of a 17-year-old young man, Bilal, who leaves Iraq to travel to London to meet his girlfriend. 

    Details

    • Release date March 11, 2009
    • Filming locations Calais, Pas-de-Calais, France
    • Production companies Nord-Ouest Films, Studio 37, France 3 Cinéma

    Box office

    Gross worldwide

    $13,578,009

    Movie reviews

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    • By Brain 2022-12-29 09:50:35

      Dilemma

      The biggest irony of the film lies in WELCOME, but it is not something that we, as others, can solve with compassion and stern words. The large influx of refugees will have a considerable impact on the economy, social security, and employment of the refugee-receiving countries. Moreover, due to the natural rejection of foreigners by human beings, it is very difficult to accept refugees. It is not easy to accept refugees like Germany, and there are not a few countries like the United Kingdom...

    • By Deshaun 2022-12-25 06:59:11

      This movie I watched in Germany in 2019

      I didn't expect it to be a movie in 2009. Now it's 2019, and the situation has changed a bit. In Germany, people are very dissatisfied with the government because of the problem of accepting refugees. By 2018, there were 1,781,750 refugees in Germany, a slowdown since 2015. Most of the refugees are from Syria, Iran, Iraq.

      I also met some refugees in my life. There are people who don't work, don't study, and live on welfare, drink and smoke marijuana, and go...

    • By Hadley 2022-12-24 12:37:49

      17-year-old love and hopeless marriage

              It can be said that the reality and the ideal are always a little bit different. Perhaps, it could have successfully crossed the strait and used it as positive material to educate those who do not cherish love, and let the divorced wife understand that persistence is victory.

           I really like this movie where two love lines run through, each of which is my favorite. The persistence of the old man, especially the state of being addicted to his own fantasy, is obviously a...

    • By Makenzie 2022-12-10 11:31:18

      people and hearts

      "This film won the European Film Icon Award and the Catholic Humanitarian Spirit Award at the Berlin Film Festival in 2009."

      Well, finally, a good film has been recognized and valued by everyone. Although the content of the film is not so exciting, it is bland, and the things of the common people. But such a thought-provoking movie is the best movie I've seen in a while!

      The greatest feeling: the distance between people, the distance between hearts and hearts....

    • By Mazie 2022-12-07 18:51:30

      seek common ground

      "It's those beggars again, they have lice and they steal!"

      This quote is used by a French citizen in the film to describe illegal immigrants. The first few minutes of the film do describe such a scene to us: this is Calais in the north of France, the port environment is dirty, the crowd is disorderly and noisy, the immigrants are all worn-out clothes, a thick-thread felt hat, full of holes The scarves, they lined up to receive relief food, they were shivering from the cold, and the...

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    • By Jess 2023-09-05 09:27:12

      If there is one person who would be so desperate for me... PS. Watching this movie reminds me of "The Uninvited...

    • By Cale 2023-09-02 01:14:32

      It's so desperate. It's really scary to watch the boy swim in the sea, but unfortunately he didn't reach his destination, only 800 meters away. The themes are diverse. Because of the relationship between Iraq and smuggling, people's emotional expression seems to be a little restrained, because there is a larger meaning behind it that needs to be...

    • By Adolphus 2023-07-21 19:19:07

      It is also better to die in the sea 800m away from the dream than to wander on the shore 30 kilometers away. Perhaps living is the foundation of everything, but people can never just live, even if they are displaced refugees. So we are destined to suffer for the sake of the distance. I think of Milan Kundera, an old Czech living in France, who has an irresistible sense of wandering. His luck is that he also has a pen that is easy to use. Iraq, a new carrier of war and...

    • By German 2023-06-24 23:45:39

      A young man who takes love as an ideal, and an old man whose ideal is...

    • By Ona 2023-06-18 17:31:32

      Hopeless hope hurts more than despair. He lost a child. He lost a father. The human beings who branched out from the same trunk gradually became alienated, the branches at the top and the bottom became completely different, and the soil was still consolidating everything. Serious events, happy or unfortunate, do not change a person's soul, but they make it clear. Dude, your comment is really spot...

    Movie plot

    Simon ( Vincent Lindon ) is a former swimming champion who is now a swimming coach. Bilal (Fila Ayvedi) is a young Iraqi who travels across the continent to Calais to join his girlfriend (Deja Awodi) in London . He tried to cross the English-French Channel by hiding in a truck, but failed. He was therefore determined to swim across the strait. Simon taught him to swim, and he wanted to dissuade him from taking risks.
    Years of war have...
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    Evaluation action

    In the film, there is a scene in which the hero listens to his two brothers arguing but does not understand. There are no subtitles, which is to let the audience understand the environment in which the hero is in, and has a sense of substitution. Classical music is used in the film to express the characters' personalities and emotions. Fragments of Chopin's works are played twice, which resonates with the audience   . (NetEase Net...
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    Movie quotes

    • Marion Calmat: Know what barring people from shops means? Want me to buy you a history-book?