After its recent participation in the official selection of the 35th edition of the Carthage Cinematographic Days, “Who Do I Belong To”, first feature film by Meryam Joobeur, will be officially released on Wednesday January 15, 2025, in all theaters of the Republic.
Written and directed by the Tunisian filmmaker based in Montreal, Canada, this fiction film is a 2023 co-production between Tunisia, Canada and France where it was released on Wednesday January 1, 2025.
In anticipation of the official release, several screening-debates are scheduled in the presence of the film team from Wednesday January 8, at Cinemad’art (7:30 p.m.). The other screenings will take place successively on Thursday January 9 at Agora la Marsa (7 p.m.), Friday January 10 at the French Institute of Tunisia (6 p.m.) and Saturday January 11 at Pathé Tunis City (7:30 p.m.).
“La Source (title in French) or “Mé el Aïn” (title in Arabic) arrives in Tunisian cinemas at the end of a tour of several months, started last February, in the biggest Western and Arab film festivals where he was selected in official competition. This film, which had its world premiere at the Berlinale last February, was in the race for the Golden Tanit at the 35th JCC, held from December 14 to 21, 2024.
Its national preview took place on December 16 at the Théâtre de l’Opéra in Tunis, in the presence of the director and the artistic team. “I am very happy to present the film in Tunisia which constitutes an experience declared Joobeur, before the screening, a moment which she says she has waited for years”.
“The Source” is the feature version of his short film “Brotherhood”, nominated for the 2020 Oscars, selected in more than 150 festivals and having won 75 international awards. The theme of the film is in the same approach of his short films which tackle unique stories of characters in often difficult socio-political contexts: Gods, Weeds and Revolutions (2012), Born in the Maelstrom (2017) and Brotherhood (2018). ).
-The cast is made up of Salha Nasraoui, Mohamed Hassine Grayaa, Malek Mechergui, Rayen Mechergui, Adam Bessa, Chaker Mechergui and Dea Liane.
This drama (120′) is the story of “Aïcha” (Salha Nasraoui) and her husband “Brahim” (Mohamed Hassine Grayaa), sheep breeders living with their junior son, Adam (Rayen Mechergui), a schoolboy, in a farm in the middle of nature. It tells the story of a family with two sons who went to war after fleeing to join Daesh groups in Raqqa, Syria. One of them, “Mehdi” (Malek Mechergui), returned forever traumatized after losing his brother “Amine” (Chaker Mechergui).
This first feature film from Joobeur offers a unique journey into the dreamlike universe of the young director, a graduate of the Mel Hoppenheim Film School in Montreal, who reveals to us a fiction with a unique narrative style. Her director of photography, the Canadian Vincent Gonneville with whom she collaborated in her first films, is behind the strength of the image in this drama paradoxically dominated by picturesque landscapes.
In this film, subtitled in French, the experiences of a Tunisian family in a mountainous area, devastated by the scale of the radicalization of young people, in the aftermath of the revolution, are explored through a vision that is both poetic, abstract and deep which arouses the most contradictory emotions.
Cinephiles will have an appointment with a fiction in which Maryem Joobeur adopts a cinematographic style translating her vision as a filmmaker with an eye for detail.
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