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The Scarecrows (Les épouvantails)

Support : Cineworld
Director(s): Nouri Bouzid
Producer(s): SAMSA FILM
Mesange Films (TN), Lycia Productions (MA)
Script: Nouri Bouzid
Year: 2020
Form: FICTION - Feature film
Genre: Drama
Original version: Arabic, French
Running time: 100'
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Synopsis

January 2014. Zina and Joe, around 20, return to Tunisia from the Syrian front where they were sequestrated and raped. Zina has been separated from her two-month-old child, and Joe, being pregnant, locks herself in mutism and only talks about Syrian horror through her next novel "Raped". Nadia, a lawyer, and Dora, a humanitarian doctor, accompany them in their long and difficult reconstruction; between violence of relatives, hard feedback from social networks, and misery. Nadia, also a lawyer of  Driss, 21, persecuted homosexual and expelled from all schools, asks her to help Zina...

Casting

Nour Hajri, Afef Ben Mahmoud, Joumene Limam, Mehdi Hajri, Sondos Belhassen, Fatma Ben Saidane, Noomene Hamda

Crew

Image : Hatem Nechi
Sound : Moez Cheikh
Editing : Chalya Lacrois, Seifedine Ben Salem, Hafedh Laridhi
Music : Riadh Fehri
Costume : Nabil Cherif
VFX : Montasser Ben Mahmoud

Nominations & Awards

International Film Festival Venice 2019 : Official Selection Out of Competition "Sconfini"

International sales

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The Scarecrows (Les épouvantails)

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