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When Pigs Have Wings
When Pigs Have Wings
	Film poster
French	Le cochon de Gaza
Directed by	Sylvain Estibal
Written by	Sylvain Estibal
Produced by	Jean-Philippe Blime; Franck Chorot; Benito Mueller; Wolfgang Müller; Jean-Jacques Neira; Hubert Toint; Jeremy Burdek; Maya Hariri; Joffrey Hutin; Nadia Khamlichi; Adrian Politowski; Gilles Waterkeyn; Marc Olla
Starring	Sasson Gabai
Cinematography	Romain Winding
Edited by	Damien Keyeux
Music by	Aqualactica; Boogie Balagan
Production; company	Umedia
Distributed by	StudioCanal
Release date	21 September 2011;
Running time	98 minutes
Countries	France; Belgium; Germany
Languages	English; Arabic; Hebrew
Budget	$4 million
Box office	$4.2 million

When Pigs Have Wings (French: Le Cochon de Gaza; lit. 'The pig from Gaza') is a 2011 French-German-Belgian comedy film directed by Sylvain Estibal.^[2]^[3]

Plot

One day Jaafar, a fortuneless Palestinian fisherman, catches a Vietnamese pig in his fishing nets. Torn between his Muslim faith and his desire to improve the lives of his wife and himself, pay debts and the reality of the conflict, Jaafar decides to undertake a most unusual trade with a young Russian-Israeli settler, Yelena. She raises pigs and - having no male pig of her own - she asks Jafaar to bring him the seed of his pig.

Cast

Sasson Gabai as Jafaar
Baya Belal as Fatima
Myriam Tekaïa as Yelena
Gassan Abbas as Barber
Khalifa Natour as Hussein
Uri Gabay as Netsah
Bashir Wakil as Walid
Michael Sciortino as Rabbi
Manuel Cauchi as Abo-Zouhair
Ulrich Tukur as The UN Officer

Production

The film was shot in Malta.

Accolades

Award	Category	Recipient	Result
César Award	Best First Feature Film	Sylvain Estibal & Franck Chorot	Won
Magritte Award	Best Editing	Damien Keyeux	Nominated
Magritte Award	Best Foreign Film in Coproduction	Sylvain Estibal	Nominated
Munich Film Festival	One Future Prize	Sylvain Estibal	Won
Tokyo International Film Festival	Audience Award	Sylvain Estibal	Won
Tokyo International Film Festival	Tokyo Grand Prix	Sylvain Estibal	Nominated