Best Television Fiction Script of the Year 2009 by a Newcomer
Donated by the European Alliance for Television and Culture (EATC)

Tomboy / Garçon manqué
France Télévisions - France 2, France;
by: Adila Bennedjai-Zou (author),
David Delrieux (director), Christophe Paturange (camera), Jean Bigot, Fanny Rondeau (commissioning editors),  Pierre Bertrand Jaume, Alain Duvernoy (producers);
produced by Expand Drama,
co-produced by RTBF, Fontana, with the participation of France 2

Synopsis
How would you react if one day, all of a sudden, you were told you belonged to the opposite sex? That's what happened to Nourredine, the hero or heroine of this story. One morning Nourredine, who had always thought he was a boy, discovers that his mum, Fatima, has been lying to him for the past 12 years. In reality, he is a girl.

Citation by the Jury
"Ambitious in its use of tone, drawing on both drama and comedy, the film shows the clear potential of its author. 

This film tackles the  situation of first and second generation Algerian families in France in a fresh  and original way, using a high concept story – a pubescent girl brought up as a boy – to illustrate the anomalies of everyday life in general and growing up in particular."