AÏCHA
Genre
Social Drama
Running time
123 minutes
Year
2024
Language
Arabic
Subtitle
English and Arabic
Country
Tunisia, France, Italy, Saudi Arabia and Qatar
Director
Mehdi M. Barsaoui
Bio
Producer
Habib Attia, Marc Irmer
Cast
Fatma Sfar, Nidhal Saadi, Yasmine Dimassi, Hela Ayed
Scriptwriter
Mehdi M. Barsaoui
Aya is the sole survivor of a bus crash on a mountain road. When she realises that nobody knows she is alive, she makes a snap decision to escape her dead-end village existence and become someone else. In thriving, liberal Tunis, she calls herself Amira, a thrilling change until one of those men is murdered and the investigating police start to question “Amira”’s sketchy life story. Fatma Sfar is vivid and immediately sympathetic as Aya/Amira, while narrative twists and nested details gradually reveal that she isn’t the only trickster with something to hide. Aicha was judged Best Mediterranean Film from the Academy of Fine Arts at this year’s Venice Film Festival.
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