The story takes place in a remote village in the country (between sea and land) where two farmers, Aïcha, a mother gifted with prophetic dreams, and her husband, Brahim, are devastated by the unexplained departure of their two eldest sons in war in Syria. After the return of one of them in the company of a mysterious veiled and mute fiancée (Reem), the parents decide to keep quiet about this return to their community.
In the running in the official JCC competition, among 14 other Arab and African feature-length fiction films, the film “Mé el Aïn” (title in English “Who Do I Belong To” and in French “LàWhere we come from ), by Meryam Joobeur, was screened on December 16 at the Tunis Opera Theater. Long before, journalists were treated to a press screening at 11:30 a.m. which was unfortunately a little disrupted by intrusions and other unjustified comings and goings. That being said, we were still able to discover and appreciate this gem which seduced us, especially at the formal and stylistic level. Meryam Joobeur has coated the form with magical realism, joining this trend increasingly seen in our current cinema where political stories or portraits of society are composed using genre cinema.
Read the full article in our paper version of December 19, 2024
