Official competition Debut Film

Synopsis

Tunis, summer 2010, a few months before the Revolution: Farah, 18 years-old, has just graduated and her family already sees her as a future doctor. But she doesn't think the same way. She sings in a political rock band. She has a passion for life, gets drunk, discovers love and her city by night against the will of her mother Hayet, who knows Tunisia and its dangers too well.

Technical details

1ère africaine & arabe & 1ère oeuvre
Duration: 102 minutes
Nationality: Tunisia / France / Belgium
Production year: 2015
Director: Leyla Bouzid
Screenplay: Leyla Bouzid, Marie Sophie Chambon
Director of Photography: Sebastien Goepfert
Editor: Lilian Corbeille
Sound:Ludovic Van Pachterbeke
Email : propaganda@gnet.tn
Cast : Baya Medhaffar, Montassar Ayari, Ghalia Ben Ali

As i open my eyes (2015)

Leyla Bouzid grows up in Tunis where she was born in 1984. In 2003 she goes to Paris to study French literature at the Sorbonne university and then enters the Femis School in the film directing department. She directs SOUBRESAUTS and ZAKARIA. These two short films receive a very warm welcome in festivals in France and abroad, with more than sixty selections and a dozen awards.