Chafi, Ferid, Abdelhak and Boujdik are four young men who went out into the streets at the time, full of hope. Two years later they find themselves caught in a daily struggle between irrepressible energy and unbearably motionless, repressive "normalisation". Ridha Tlili followed them with his camera from 2013 to 2016 to paint a very sympathetic portrait of his protagonists. The film reveals their human and philosophical depth in the midst of bleakness, their dreams and sense of humour: "Broke but well dressed!" The group fight against getting worn down by unemployment, against the slow suffocation of the revolution and the obstructions to a normal relationship with women. They found a theatre group, make music and organise political actions in the streets. Philosophising and making youthful jokes, the four are wintering in their backrooms, in the grocery store and on walks through the Wadi landscape outside the city.
Unemployed, constantly repressed by the state, considering to quit a country which denies equal opportunities and confines them in a perennial marginalisation, the men find in theatre their own way to deal with reality. Performance merges with their daily lives and, as a consequence, with the plot of the film itself.
A film by Ridha TLILI
Tunisia | 2017 | Documentary Film | 90 min. | Arabic | English subtitles | World Premiere
CATALOGUE TEXT The Arab Spring is wintering in Sidi Bouzid. The town in the Tunisian interior seems provincial and insignificant. But at the turn of 2010/2011 the self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi and the ensuing protests of hundreds of young people against the arbitrariness of the authorities made it the starting point of a departure that was to challenge a number of autocracies in the Arab world. Chafi, Ferid, Abdelhak and Boujdik are four young men who went out into the streets at the time, full of hope. Two years later they find themselves caught in a daily struggle between irrepressible energy and unbearably motionless, repressive "normalisation". Ridha Tlili followed them with his camera from 2013 to 2016 to paint a very sympathetic portrait of his protagonists. The film reveals their human and philosophical depth in the midst of bleakness, their dreams and sense of humour: "Broke but well dressed!" The group fight against getting worn down by unemployment, against the slow suffocation of the revolution and the obstructions to a normal relationship with women. They found a theatre group, make music and organise political actions in the streets. Philosophising and making youthful jokes, the four are wintering in their backrooms, in the grocery store and on walks through the Wadi landscape outside the city. André Eckardt (DOK Leipzig 2017)
Original Title: Tounsa Country: Tunisia Year: 2017 Language: Arabic Subtitle: English Runtime: 90 min. (Dok Leipzig), 87 mins (Rencontres du Film Documentaire de Redeyef, RFDR 2017) Format: DCP Color: Colour
Worldpremiere at DOK Leipzig 2017 Nominated for Filmprize "Leipziger Ring" Projection / Screening: mercredi 1 novembre 2017, Cinémathèque Leipzig, à 17:30 - 20:30, Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 48, 04275 Leipzig, Projection / Screening: 03-01-2017, Cinéstar 5, 21:45 https://www.facebook.com/events/323431138065244/ https://filmfinder.dok-leipzig.de/en/film/?ID=16221&title=Forgotten
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يرسم الفيلم صورة متعاطفة لشخصيات حلمت بالتغيير سنة2011 ولكنها ظلت منسية
يرافق رضا تليلي طيلة ثلاث سنوات ٬ أربعة شباب وهم شافي وفريد وعبد الحق وبوجديق، في مدينة سيدي على بن بنعون لينقل لنا أحلامهم وحربهم ضد عدم تكافؤ الفرص، فهم يؤلفون الموسيقى وينتجون أعمالا مسرحية ويحتجون في الشارع. الفيلم يرسم صورة متعاطفة لشخصيات حلمت بالتغيير سنة2011 ولكنها ظلت منسية
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Der Arabische Frühling überwintert in Sidi Bouzid. Provinziell und unbedeutend mutet die Stadt im Hinterland von Tunesien an. Um den Jahreswechsel 2010/2011 war sie mit der Selbstverbrennung von Mohamed Bouazizi und den anschließenden Protesten hunderter Jugendlicher gegen behördliche Willkür Ausgangsort des Aufbruchs geworden, der zahlreiche Autokratien im arabischen Raum infrage stellte. Chafi, Ferid, Abdelhak und Boujdik sind vier junge Männer, die sich damals hoffnungsvoll auf die Straße wagten. Zwei Jahre später finden sie sich in einem Alltag zwischen unbändiger Energie und unerträglich bewegungsloser, repressiver „Normalisierung"eingeklemmt. Ridha Tlili begleitete sie von 2013 bis 2016 mit der Kamera und zeichnet ein sehr einnehmendes Porträt seiner Protagonisten. Der Film offenbart in all der Trostlosigkeit ihre menschliche und gedankliche Tiefe, ihre Träume und ihren Humor: „Pleite aber gut angezogen!"Die Clique wehrt sich gegen das Zermürbende der Arbeitslosigkeit, das langsame Ersticken der Revolution und die Behinderung eines normalen Verhältnisses zu Frauen. Sie gründen eine Theatergruppe, machen Musik und gehen mit politischen Aktionen auf die Straße. Philosophierend, jugendlich scherzend überwintern die vier in ihren Hinterzimmern, im Lebensmittelladen und auf Spaziergängen durch die Wadilandschaft vor der Stadt. André Eckardt (DOK Leipzig 2017)
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