Aïcha
Synopsis
Aya, a woman in her twenties, still lives with her parents in southern Tunisia and feels trapped in a life with no prospects. One day, the minibus she takes daily between her hometown and the hotel where she works crashes. As the sole survivor, she realizes this might be her chance to start over. She escapes to Tunis under a new identity, but everything is soon at risk when she becomes the key witness to a case of police misconduct.
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About the Author
Background
Born in 1984 in Tunisia, Mehdi Barsaoui was "bottle-fed on cinema" by his family. A director father, a producer father-in-law, a video maker cousin: as a matter of course, Mehdi Barsaoui enrolled in film school in Tunis after passing his high school diploma. When he finished his studies, he flew to Italy to complete his training at the DAMS in Bologna. Back in Tunisia, he worked as an editor before starting, in the late 2000s, to shoot short films. Over the next decade, he shot three, as well as two documentaries. Mehdi Barsaoui unveils his first feature film in 2019, A Son.
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