The Scarecrows
Les épouvantails
Directed by
Tunisia, Morocco, Luxembourg
2019
100 min
- French
- Arabic
Drama
January 2014. Zina and Joe, around 20, return to Tunisia from the Syrian front where they were sequestrated and raped. Zina has been separated from her two-month-old child, and Joe, being pregnant, locks herself in mutism and only talks about Syrian horror through her next novel "Raped". Nadia, a lawyer, and Dora, a humanitarian doctor, accompany them in their long and difficult reconstruction; between violence of relatives, hard feedback from social networks, and misery. Nadia, also a lawyer of Driss, 21, persecuted homosexual and expelled from all schools, asks her to help Zina...
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Credits
- Cast
- Nour Hajri
- Afef Ben Mahmoud
- Joumene Limam
- Mehdi Hajri
- Sondos Belhassen
- Fatma Ben Saidane
- Noomene Hamda
- Screenplay
- Nouri Bouzid
- Cinematography
- Hatem Nechi
- Editing
- Chalya Lacrois
- Seifedine Ben Salem
- Hafedh Laridhi
- Music
- Riadh Fehri
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The result is a tough, emotional drama that explores the precarious position someone like Zina finds herself in.
Nouri Bouzid
Tunisia
Director, screenwriter, Nouri Bouzid was born in 1945 in Sfax, Tunisia. He studied at INSAS (Brussels) in 1968 where he becomes a student of André Delvaux. A leftist activist, Bouzid was imprisoned from 1973 to 1979 for belonging to the leadership of GEAST (the Tunisian Socialist Studies and Action Group). From his encounter with producer Ahmed Attia was born his first feature film, MAN OF ASHES, screened in Cannes in 1986 in the Un Certain Regard section along with his second feature GOLDEN HORSESHOES in 1989 followed by BEZNESS at the Directors' Fortnight in 1992. His short IT IS SHERHERAZADE THEY'RE KILLING part of the collective omnibus film THE GULF WAR... WHAT NEXT? in 1991 and Bent Familia in 1997 were both at the Venice International Film Festival. Director, actor and poet, he has had a distinguished career, winning numerous prizes. In 1994 he participated in founding a film school, EDAC, where he has been teaching since. His latest film THE SCARECROWS (2019) was selected in the Sconfini section of the 76th Venice International Film Festival.