Têtes Brûlées

Original Title: Têtes Brûlées

Drama, Coming of age | 80' | 2025 (Completed)

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Director:	Maja-Ajmia Zellama
Producer:	Marc Goyens
Writer:	Maja-Ajmia Zellama

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Eya mourns her older brother and searches for a way to stay strong.

synopsis

Eya, a 12-year-old lover of rap and dance, has a close relationship with her 23-year-old brother, Younès. She spends her days with him and his friends, who she admires very much. Then Younès unexpectedly loses his life in a vaguely criminal incident, leaving Eya to survive the intense and highly codified period of mourning demanded by her culture. With the help of her creativity, her resilience and her brother’s friends, she finds her own way to accept this new reality.
Eya, 12 ans, vit une relation fusionnelle avec son grand-frère, Younès, qu’elle admire beaucoup . Elle passe son quotidien avec lui et sa bande d’amis . Du jour au lendemain, Younès perd la vie. Eya va devoir trouver son propre cheminement pour survivre pendant cette période de deuil intense et tres codifiée. A l’aide de sa créativité, sa résilience et les amis de son frère ,elle va devoir trouver sa propre manière d’accepter cette réalité… de grandir.

Credits

Director
Maja-Ajmia Zellama
Producer
Marc Goyens
Writer
Maja-Ajmia Zellama
Cast
Safa Gharbaoui, Mehdi Bouziane
Editing
Dieter Diependaele
Photography
Grimm Vandekerckhove
Costume
Zazou Charki
Sound
Hélène Lamy Au Rousseau
Makeup
Nakani Keita

Format

Creation details

Type
Film
Category
Fiction
Production share
Majority Flemish Production
Belgium
Genre
Drama, Coming of age
Year of production

2025
Production status
Completed
Original title
Têtes Brûlées
Original language
Dutch, French, Arabic

Technical specs

Running time
80'
Available in
2D
Sound format
5.1 (+ sub) Dolby
Available formats
DCP (2K)
Colour
Colour

Contact & sales

Contact

Quetzalcoatl

Roesstraat 2
3670 Oudsbergen
Belgium

T 0476460154
marc@quetzalcoatl.be

www.quetzalcoatl.be

Details
Sales

Mad World

Salah El-Din St., 3rd fl., Zamalek 18
11211 Cairo
Egypt

T 02 0109 421 4161
ahmed.kastawy@mad-solutions.com

Festivals & awards

Festivals

No festival information available.

Awards

No award information available.

Partners

Co-production partners

Komoko, Quetzalcoatl, 1080 Films

Supported by

Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF), Centre du Cinéma et de l'audiovisuel de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, New Dawn, RTBF, BEtv & Orange Belgium, Voo, Brussels Capital Region, the Red Sea Fund, a Red Sea International Film Festival Initiative