| When Pigs Have Wings | |
| Native Name: | |
| Director: | Sylvain Estibal |
| Producer: | 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 |
| Music: | Aqualactica Boogie Balagan |
| Cinematography: | Romain Winding |
| Editing: | Damien Keyeux |
| Studio: | Umedia |
| Distributor: | StudioCanal |
| Runtime: | 98 minutes |
| Country: | France Belgium Germany |
| Language: | English Arabic Hebrew |
| Budget: | $4 million |
| Gross: | $4.2 million[1] |
When Pigs Have Wings (French: '''Le Cochon de Gaza''';) is a 2011 French-German-Belgian comedy film directed by Sylvain Estibal.[2] [3]
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.
The film was shot in Malta.
| Award | Category | Recipient | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| César Award | Best First Feature Film | Sylvain Estibal & Franck Chorot | |
| Magritte Award | Best Editing | Damien Keyeux | |
| Best Foreign Film in Coproduction | Sylvain Estibal | ||
| Munich Film Festival | One Future Prize | Sylvain Estibal | |
| Tokyo International Film Festival | Audience Award | Sylvain Estibal | |
| Tokyo Grand Prix | Sylvain Estibal |