Who Do I Belong To

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Mé el Aïn
Director Meryam Joobeur
Year 2024
Runtime 118 min
Country Tunisia, France, Canada
Language Arabic
Subtitles English, Spanish

Synopsis

Aicha lives in the isolated north of Tunisia with her husband and youngest son. The family lives in anguish after the departure of the eldest sons Mehdi and Amine to the violent embrace of war. When Mehdi unexpectedly returns home with a mysterious pregnant wife, a darkness emerges, threatening to consume the entire village. Aicha is caught between her maternal love and her search for the truth.

Screenings

13:30

Cinemex Stadium | Sala 4

Friday 19.7.
16:00

Cinemex Luciérnaga | Sala 7

Thursday 25.7.

Cast and crew

Director Meryam Joobeur
Producer Nadim Cheikhrouha, Sarra Ben Hassen, Annick Blanc, Maria Gracia Turgeon, Meryam Joobeur
Writer Meryam Joobeur
Cast Salha Nasraoui, Mohamed Hassine Grayaa, Malek Mechergui, Adam Bessa , Dea Liane, Rayen Mechergui, Chaker Mechergui
Editor Maxime Mathis, Meryam Joobeur
Music Peter Venne
Sound Aymen Labidi, Gwennolé Le Borgne, Elias Boughedir, Niels Barletta
dop Vincent Gonneville
Art Director Mohamed Ilyes Dargouth

Director's bio:
Meryam Joobeur is an Academy Award nominated writer, director and producer based in Montréal. Her short films Gods, Weeds and Revolutions (2013) and Born in the Maelstrom (2017) were screened in dozens of national and international festivals. Her short Brotherhood (2018), a co-production between Canada and Tunisia, won over 75 international prizes, was screened in 150+ festivals and was nominated for an Oscar for “Best Live Action short” (a first for a Tunisian film). Her first feature Who do I belong to(2024) premieres in official selection at the 74th edition of the Berlin Film Festival.
She is an alumni of TIFF talent lab, Rawi Screenwriters lab, Berlinale Talent Lab and the Sundance Screenwriters lab

 





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