Once Upon My Mother Movie Q&A with Roland Perez , the author of the book the movie is based on

Описание: Q&A with Roland Perez and his interpreter opening day of festival Jan 14 2026

Once Upon My Mother Film :
The matriarch of a Moroccan Jewish family in the Parisian suburbs will do anything to give her son the best life despite his physical setbacks in this fiery 1960s-set drama.

Part of the New York Jewish Film Festival at the Lincoln Center in Manhattan


DIRECTOR
Ken Scott
YEAR
2025
COUNTRY
France / Canada

LANGUAGE
French with English subtitles

In this inspiring, emotionally charged, and often funny real-life drama set in the 1960s, the matriarch of a bustling Jewish immigrant family from Morocco living in the Parisian suburbs will do anything to give her youngest son the best possible life despite his physical setbacks. Born with a clubfoot, little Roland is unable to walk, yet his mother, Esther (Algerian French actress Leïla Bekhti, in a flamboyant, tour de force performance), is undeterred, her determination to help him live “normally” turning into an obsession. The film follows Roland into adulthood, as his maternal relationship grows increasingly complicated, even overwhelming. A fiery and wondrous adaptation of an autobiographical novel by French writer and radio personality Roland Perez, featuring music by Sylvie Vartan, who plays herself in the film, the upbeat and miraculous Once Upon My Mother beautifully demonstrates the complex phenomenon of a mother’s single-minded, against-all-odds devotion.
Source : FilmLinc.org

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Once Upon My Mother (French: Ma mère, Dieu et Sylvie Vartan, lit. "My Mother, God and Sylvie Vartan") is a French-Canadian comedy-drama film, directed by Ken Scott and released in 2025. The film was adapted from the 2021 autobiographical novel Ma mère, Dieu et Sylvie Vartan by French lawyer and broadcaster Roland Perez , which centres on his experiences growing up with a clubfoot and a Sephardic Jewish mother who is determined not to let her son's disability stop him from leading a full and successful life.

Based on
Ma mère, Dieu et Sylvie Vartan by Roland Perez
Produced by
Sidonie Dumas
Sophie Tepper
Starring
Jonathan Cohen
Leïla Bekhti
Sylvie Vartan
Cinematography
Guillaume Schiffman
Edited by
Dorian Rigal-Ansous
Yvann Thibaudeau
Music by
Nicolas Errèra
Production
companies
Egérie Productions
Gaumont
Christal Films
Distributed by
Gaumont (France)

The film stars Jonathan Cohen as Perez in adulthood, and Leïla Bekhti as his mother.[3]
Child actors Gabriel Hyverneau, Naim Naji and Noé Schecroun play Perez at various ages in childhood, with the cast also including Joséphine Japy, Lionel Dray, Jeanne Balibar, Milo Machado-Graner, Anne Le Ny, Ariane Massenet and Gladys Cohen in supporting roles.
Sylvie Vartan, whose music is used extensively in the film as a recurring motif of Perez's childhood, also makes a brief appearance in the film as herself, and recorded a new version of her song "Nicolas".[4] Perez himself also makes a small appearance in the film as a school director.



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