aicha-a-film-by-mehdi-m-barsaoui

Screening Date: 15th November

Screening Time: 8:20

Location: Ritzy London Language: Arabic(subtitled) Certificate: 18 Duration: 123 minutes

Synopsis

Aya, in her late twenties, still lives with her parents in southern Tunisia and feels trapped in a life without prospects. One day, the minivan in which she commutes daily between her town and the hotel where she works crashes. As the sole survivor of the accident, she realizes it could be her chance to start a new life. She flees to Tunis under a new identity, but everything is soon compromised when she becomes the main witness to a police blunder.

Cast

Aya – Fatma Sfar

Fares – Nidhal Saadi

Lobna – Yasmine Dimassi

Hela – Hela Ayed

Rafik – Mohamed Ali Ben Jemaa

Karim – Ala Benhamad

Commissioner – Sawssen Maalej

Credits

Director and writer

Mehdi M. Barsaoui

Producers

Habib Attia, Marc Irmer

Co-Producers

Chantal Fischer, Flaminio Zadra, Antoine Khalife, Faisal Baltyuor

Screenplay

Mehdi M. Barsaoui

Photography

Antoine Héberlé

Trailer

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