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AGORA

Drama | Running Time: 102 minutes

2024 / Arabic

Country: Tunisia, France and Saudi Arabia

Directed by: Directed by: Ala Eddine Slim

MENA Premiere

R15

Death

 

SHOWTIME

Wed 11 Dec | 7:15 PM - 9:02 PM
Cinema 3
Price: 40 SAR

Thu 12 Dec | 3:00 PM - 4:47 PM
Cinema 3
Price: 40 SAR

Producer
Ala Eddine Slim, Julie Viez

Cast
Neji Kanaweti, Bilel Slatnia, Majd Mastoura, Sonia Zarg Ayouna

Scriptwriter
Ala Eddine Slim

A blue dog and a black crow narrate the strange story of three revenants – people who are not quite dead, but not alive either – who resurge in a remote town, reviving the unsolved mysteries around their respective disappearances. Fathi, the local police inspector, is on the case, assisted by his friend Amine, the local doctor. What begins as a conventionally recognisable crime thriller, however, becomes more of a mood piece once Omar, a police investigator from the city, arrives to shine a light on what has happened and is overwhelmed by the irrationality of the chain of events. At once absurd and disturbing, Agora gradually reveals itself as both poetic fable and a political commentary on the state of Tunisia.