FOUR DAUGHTERS // LES FILLES D’OLFA

2023 | DCP | Colour | 107’ | Arabic; Turkish, English sub. | France, Saudi Arabia, Germany, Tunisia

September, 17, Sunday, 19.00, Sanat Fabrikası // September, 19, Tuesday, 12.00, Vural Sineması

Kaouther Ben Hania's Four Sisters is a documentary about mother Olfa and her daughters. Through the main characters, the film portrays the lack of love, and unwavering violence handed down from generation to generation in patriarchal societies like Tunisia.

Growing up in a cruel environment, Olfa has been forced into an arranged marriage with pressure from her family. Subject to physical violence from her husband on their wedding night, Olfa believes that a similar degree of force is necessary to protect her daughters from the outside world. Every man who enters their lives and every shift in their country amplifies the shocks Olfa and her daughters have to endure. Ultimately, Olfa loses her daughters while trying to protect them, with the two eldest daughters running away from home to join ISIS in Libya.

The film is a blend of documentary and fiction in which professional actors play Olfa's daughters, who joined ISIS. Olfa and her youngest girls appear as themselves. Director Kaouther Ben Hania brings the terrorising stories of five women and many more with interviews and re-enactments.

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DIRECTOR

Kaouther Ben Hania

CAST

Hend Sabri, Olfa Hamrouni, Eya Chikhaoui, Tayssir Chikhaoui, Nour Karoui, Ichraq Matar, Majd Mastoura

SCREENPLAY

Kaouther Ben Hania

CINEMATOGRAPHY

Farouk Laâridh

EDITING

Jean-Christophe Hym, Qutaiba Barhamji, Kaouther Ben Hania

MUSIC

Amine Bouhafa

PRODUCER

Nadim Cheikhrouha

PRODUCTION

Tanit Films, Cinetelefilms, Twenty Twenty Vision

WORLD SALES

The Party Film Sales

TURKEY SALES

Bir Film