On returning to Tunisia after seven years of isolation in Italy, Tarek meets his new neighbor Khaled. Khaled is everything Tarek isn’t: successful, handsome, and able to help others. Always close to her characters, filmmaker Charlie Kouka immerses the audience into the dynamics and dimensions of their inner turmoils, exploring the consequences of staying, leaving, […]
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Director Faris RJ patterns unfinished thoughts and unanswered questions into a distinctive visual language in this fragmentary and brooding meditation on man and a city. Masculine and feminine is brought viscerally alive by Nadeem Rimawi’s utterly compelling performance exploring the human spirit on the brink, and at rock-bottom.
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