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D’Abdul à Leila is the odyssey of a woman who sings her story in order to reinvent herself, driven by an irrepressible desire to live. After suffering amnesia following an accident, Leila, a young French artist of Iraqi origin, reunites with her family and delves into her roots to reconstruct her past. She learns Arabic, interprets the poems of her exiled Iraqi father and immerses herself in the history of the Gulf War.
Leila Albayaty is a multi-disciplinary artist of Iraqi origin and French nationality, working in various countries. She directed the short film VU (2009), which received a special mention at the 2009 Berlin Festival.?BERLIN TELEGRAM was selected for some thirty international festivals and won the TV5 prize for best French-language film in Geneva.?FACE B, a 40-minute docu-drama, had its world premiere at the 2015 Berlinale.?D’Abdul à Leila was part of the official selection of the Brussels International Film Festival.