Hend Sabri, Ahmed Hafiane, Oumeya Ben Hafsia, Lofti Abdelli

ARAÏS AL-TEÏN

Little Fedhah and the beautiful Rebeh have a common fate: both have been taken from their families and sent to the city to work in the houses of riches; both have been entrusted to the protection of Omrane, a man about forty who guarantees their virtue and the punctual delivery of their wages to their families. Fedhah is the last deal concluded by Omrane. Without any ties of love, the little girl seeks comfort by shaping clay dolls, while Rebeh, the rebel, now a woman and aware of her charms, is ready to do anything to escape her fate.

the filmmaker

 

Nouri Bouzid was born in Sfax (Tunisia) in 1945. He studied film at the Insas school of Brussels, where he shot his first film Duel (1972). He returned to Tunisia in the early 1970s and worked for Tunisian television. In 1973 he was arrested, accused of crime of opinion and imprisoned for six years. After leaving prison worked as assistant director on various Tunisian and foreign films before making his first feature film L’homme de cendres in 1986. Les sabots d’or, his second film (1989) is screened in Cannes.

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