01/08/2019 - The new film by the French filmmaker is set to world-premiere in Competition at the Locarno Film Festival

Frank (Arieh Worthalter) is fired from a car repair workshop where he works illegally. The area where he lives is the slum belt. Although very attached to his life with Maroussia (the director of the film herself, Nadège Trebal), Frank must leave to find work elsewhere, far from home. Twelve thousand euros is the sum on which they both agree - the amount he must earn before returning. Will Frank succeed in collecting this sum? Will he come back? Will he just come back like that?

This is the synopsis for Twelve Thousand [+see also:
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