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Sous les figues

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Fiction
Competing | Cercle d'or Meilleur long métrage de fiction

Sessions

Tuesday, 11 April 2023 | 18:30 La Maison du Cinéma
Thursday, 13 April 2023 | 15:30 La Maison du Cinéma

                                    Poster of Sous les figues

On a hot summer day, a crew of workers – men and women, young and old – arrive at dawn at a picturesque fig orchard in northwest Tunisia. We eavesdrop, through the sun-dappled leaves of the fig trees, on the young women stealing away precious moments from the foreman’s watchful gaze. Meanwhile, the older women, tasked with the careful job of packing the tender fruit, watch and reminisce together as well. They joke, argue, debate, gossip, flirt, all the while painting an unhurried but riveting portrait of everyday life in the rural society, where class, gender, and circumstance often don’t allow for such personal freedoms.

Country of production: Tunisia, France, Switzerland, Germany, Qatar

Directors’ Fortnight – Cannes Film Festival – 2022

Director

Erige Sehiri

Screenplay

Erige Sehiri, Ghalya Lacroix, Peggy Hamann

Country

Tunisia, France, Switzerland and Germany

Year

2021

Duration

1h32

Category

Fiction

Language

Arabic, subtitled in French

Distribution

Film Movement
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