MÉMOIRE D’UNE FEMME (Tunisie, 2008)


Documentaire - Couleur – 52’
Direction: Lassad Oueslati
Screenplay: Lassad Oueslati
Director of Photography: Rabii Messoudi,
Med Anis Mejri, Amen Gharbi
Sound: Houssem Ksouri
Music: Olfa Soussi
Editing: Anes Saâdi, Lobna Hawari
Production: BMMSP, HORS CHAMPS PROD


Synopsis

During the 40s and 50s, during the French colonization of Tunisia, a woman, Esther, from a Jewish Italian family converts to Islam, changes her name to Hedia, and weds a man who is the right hand of Salah Ben Youssef, a nationalist leader who later opposed Habib Bourguiba. She tells her passionate story at the heart of historic events. She also relates her conflict with her son, Mohamed David, who is involved in a continuous search for his Jewish origins.

THE DIRECTOR

Born in Le Kef, Tunisia in 1979, Lassad Oueslati has a degree in Audiovisual arts from the Institut Supéreiur des Arts Mutimédia (Charguia II).

Assistant director on Tunisian and foreign films, he wrote and directed a short film in 2007, «La Citerne». Memoire d’une femme is his first feature film.

Contact

Med Mondher Nemri & Lassad Oueslati
BMMSP & HORS CHAMPS PROD
26, rue Kheireddine Barbarousse AP N°27 4E, 1001 Tunis / Tunisie
Tél. : + 216 96 978 103 – 96 170 454
nemrimondher@yahoo.fr - oueslatilassd@yahoo.fr