BEHIND THE MOUNTAINS
Genre
Fantastic Realism
Running time
98 minutes
Year
2023
Language
Arabic
Subtitle
English, French and Italian
Country
Tunisia, France, Belgium, Italy, Saudi Arabia and Qatar
Director
Mohamed Ben Attia
Bio
Producer
Dora Bouchoucha, Lina Chaabane Menzli, Nadim Cheikhrouha, Jean Pierre Et Luc Dardenne, Delphine Tomson, Giovanni Robbiano, Lorenzo Rapetti, Paolo Maria Spina
Cast
Majd Mastoura, Walid Bouchhioua, Samer Bisharat, Helmi Dridi, Salma Zeghidi, Wissem Belgharek
Scriptwriter
Mohamed Ben Attia
Rafik is a desperate man. Released from a Tunisian prison, where he served four years for smashing up the office where he used to work, he is now convinced he can fly and is determined, in the face of his family scepticism, to prove to his young son Yassine that his vision is real. Taking the boy out of school and heading to the mountains, where he finds temporary refuge by invading a bourgeois family’s country house, Rafik is clearly mentally unwell. Whether he can fly or not remains an open question, however, cleverly teased by the film-maker and by Majd Mastoura, who is both persuasive and dignified as Rafik.
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