Completed - ARABIC, FRENCH - Romance - 86 minutes
Hedi, a young man with great dreams, is struggling his way through social conventions in Tunisia. While his mother tries to decide his life for him, Hedi meets Rym and suddenly he discovers that his world goes beyond and above conventions.
Year of production : 2016 Director(s) : Mohamed BEN ATTIA Cast : Rym BEN MESSAOUD, Sabah BOUZOUITA, Majd MASTOURA Producer(s) : Dora BOUCHOUCHA (NOMADIS IMAGES), Jean-perre & luc DARDENNE (LES FILMS DU FLEUVE)
Hedi is a simple young man. He is not very talkative, not very reactive and does not expect much from the life that is traced for him. Indifferent to everything around him, he just takes life as it comes. He allows his authoritarian and overwhelming mother to organize his marriage to Khedija. He allows his Boss to send him on a prospection trip to Mahdia duringthe week of his wedding celebrations. And heallows Ahmed, his brother who has come back from France especially to take part in the ceremony, dictate how he should behave. In other words, he takes it all as it comes. He understands what is happening to him, but he just waits for things to go by.In Mahdia, he meets Rim who works as an activity leader in a hotel, a seaside resort. At first, intrigued by her insouciance and frivolity, Hediends by getting involved in a passionate love relationship. In the meantime while the wedding preparations go on, Hedi is finally forced tomake a choice.
Country(ies) : TUNISIA, FRANCE, BELGIUM, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, QATAR
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Berlinale - EFM 2016 (Best First Feature Award)Berlinale - EFM 2016 (Best Actor Award)Chicago International Film Festival 2016Valladolid International Film Festival 2016Athens International Film Festival 2016 (Golden Athena Best Picture)Stockholm Film Festival 2016London Film Festival 2016Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema 2016Festival International du Film Francophone de Namur (FIFF) in Belgium 2016Arte Mare - Festival du Film Méditerranée de Bastia 2016Lumiere Awards 2017 (Lumieres Award Best French Language Film)