Hawa (2022)
A teenage girl lives with her grandmother and worries she will be removed by social services. She sets off to get adopted by someone she admires more than anything, one of the most powerful women in the world.
- Date of release
- 2022-09-13
- TMDB
- 6.1 / 10 (39)
- Runtime
- 1h 44m
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy
- Director
- Maïmouna Doucouré
Casting
- Sania Halifa — Hawa
- Oumou Sangaré — Mamimata
- Titouan Gerbier — Erwan
- Yseult — Yseult
- Thomas Pesquet — Thomas Pesquet
- Anitha Rangadamalou — Mrs. Ravi
- Jérôme Pouly — Jackie
- Lola Zidi — Déborah
- Yvick Letexier — Mister V
- Hakim Faris — Sam
- Jonathan Amoule — The groom
- Mathieu Aroquiassamy — Mr. Ravi
Interesting facts
Hawa is a French drama film, directed by Maïmouna Doucouré and released in 2022. The film centres on the coming-of-age of Hawa, a teenage girl in France who is living with her grandmother. Fearing that social services will take her away when her grandmother falls ill, sets out to get herself adopted by former US first lady Michelle Obama. Doucouré has described the film as being about the desire to transcend one's social class.
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