Friday, February 21 • 7:30pm
Les filles d’Olfa (Four Daughters)
Kaouther Ben Hania, MP4, 110 min
France / Tunisia, 2023 (French, Arabic)
Best Documentary Film, 2023 Cannes Festival & Césars (2024), 2024 Alice Guy Prize
This hybrid documentary-fiction recounts the causes and consequences of the departure of Olfa Hamrouni’s two eldest daughters to join Daesh in Libya. Together with professional actresses playing them and pivotal moments in the mother’s life, Olfa and her four daughters recreate the ties that bind them as they confide the familial traumas that have shaped them.
Presented as part of the Albertine Cinémathèque program & co-sponsored by MALLT
In memory of Nicole Darmon Chandler.
Talkback with Fahed Masalkhi (Arabic Program Coordinator)