Showing: 2nd March 2025
Between light and darkness stands Olfa, a Tunisian woman and the mother of four daughters. The two older girls were radicalised as teenagers and left their family to join Islamic State in Libya, making headlines around the world.
Filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania uses professional actresses along side the remaining family and invents a unique cinema experience that will lift the veil on Olfa and her daughters’ life stories. This is a documentary of a real family with dramatic reconstructions, blending the reminiscences of the mother and the two remaining girls (all three are engrossing natural storytellers) with dramatic reconstructions. It is an emotionally wrenching film that takes its subjects to bruising places, but it’s also full of love, optimism and defiant humour.
Year: 2023
Director: Kaouther Ben Hania
Cast: Olfa Hamrouni, Eya Chikhaoui, Tayssir Chikhaoui
Language: Arabic French English
Duration: 107 Minutes
Cert: 15