After spending four years in jail, Rafik has only one plan, to take his son behind the mountains and show him his amazing discovery. The story of a man who violently breaks free from his banal environment, subtracting himself from society with its principles, codes, and institutions. Rafik is not an intellectual, he obeys to no ideology and cannot express his vision of the world in words. His acts seem to emerge from a passionate, almost savage drive. His rejection of a brutally conformist society is steered by an extraordinary momentum, a vital outburst of freedom, a deep desire to flee bland and standardised reality, a conventional bleak world which has become the reign of political correctness, of a single way of thinking where everything is rashly dictated. In times where fear and propriety rule the world, Rafik is a threat.
Language: Arabic
Subtitles: Italian
Screenings
Oura El Jbel (Dietro le montagne) is part of this program:
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Oura El Jbel (Dietro le montagne)
Mohamed Ben Attia
Tunisia, Belgium, France, Italy, Qatar, Saudi Arabia / 2023 / 98'
Director
Mohamed Ben Attia
Mohamed Ben Attia was born in Tunis in 1976. He studied audiovisual communication at the University of Valenciennes in France. His feature debut, HEIDI, won the Best First Film Award at the 2016 Berlinale as well as great critic and audience acclaim around the world. BEHIND THE MOUNTAINS is his third feature film.
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