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Omar Sy’s most political film finally on video

Directed in 2024 by Brandt Andersen, the film Le passage took almost two years before reaching our screens this summer, somewhat quietly. Yet this ensemble film was notably carried by Omar Sy and had above all been presented at the 74th edition of the Berlin Festival, with the Amnesty International Peace Prize as a bonus.

In 2017, the long-time activist in humanitarian aid for refugee populations, Brandt Andersen, writes a screenplay following Donald Trump’s decision to impose a controversial laptop ban on flights to the United States departing from certain airports in the Middle East…

Omar Sy in an against-type role

A mix of drama, thriller, and adventure film, The Passage offers Omar Sy an against-type role, that of a thoroughly unlikeable character whose surprise we will preserve in these lines. Note that the film won the Audience Award at Deauville.

Nour Film, which will release the film on DVD and Blu-Ray on November 12, has packed its discs with a few extras:

• The director’s short film, Refugee (20'), which later gave life to the feature film

• The making-of with many excerpts from interviews with the director and the actors• The trailer