World Film Festival: Pascal Elbe

Police Brutality Dept: The 87-minute film marks the directorial debut of Pascal Elbe, who also wrote the screenplay and plays one of the main characters, an emergency physician who's nearly killed when a Molotov cocktail is thrown at his car after youths mistake it for a police vehicle, according to Montreal Gazette. Word of the good deed gets around and the authorities go looking for the boy to give him a medal for civic bravery. Should he tell the truth, or accept the award as payback for police brutality in the 'burbs and a lawless French suburb of concrete high-rises where immigrants eke out a living, the youths run in gangs, and the cops make occasional forays to bust a few heads -that's the gritty setting for Tete de turc, a taut new drama getting its international premiere in official competition at the World Film Festival. With the case making national headlines, the doctor's elder brother Roschdy Zem , a policeman, is assigned to investigate. What neither knows is that the 14-year-old French Turk Samir Makhlouf who threw the firebomb had a bout of remorse after he did the deed and, before fleeing, actually rescued the unconscious doctor from the burning car. As reported in the news.
@t molotov cocktail, occasional forays