Alyssa Tunisian Film Festival - 3rd Edition
Dear member,
We are delighted to confirm that Alyssa Tunisian Film Festival is taking place on the 28th & 30th of September 2023 at the Courthouse hotel in London.
Please see the full agenda below:
Thursday 28th of September:
8:00PM: Screening of film “I'm coming
home”
A film by Yassine Redissi
Drama | Arabic| 92 mins| 2022
Official trailer:
Synopsis
A group of young people track back the footsteps of an old exiled Tunisian singer as they try to restore his forgotten discography that he had entirely dedicated to his love for Tunisia.
9:30PM: 30 minutes Q&A session with the film producer Yassine Redissi
Saturday 30th of September:
8:00PM: Screening of film “Under the fig
trees”
A film by Erige Sehiri
BBFC Feature: 12A
BBFC Trailer: 15
Drama | Arabic| 92 mins| 2022
Synopsis:
Over the course of one day women and men, young and old, work in a fig orchard under the watchful eye of the foreman. They are restless and eager in the summer heat, stealing away from work to catch up, gossip, and flirt. Each encounter is ripe with discovery and connection. Sun-dappled and sensual, Erige Sehiri’s fiction debut captures the strength of sisterhood, promise of young love, and the sorrows of life with remarkable intimacy and tenderness.
“It was not about the beauty of the place but the beauty of them and that's what I wanted to focus on.” writer-director Erige Sehiri in an Eye for Film interview.
Official trailer:
Press:
“Sehiri is an intelligent observer of life” Cineuropa
“it’s gorgeous. pure breath of life for 90 minutes” Jonathan Romney
“a gentle human drama” Screen Daily
“a little miracle of cinema” Liberation
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