Between light and darkness stands Olfa, a Tunisian woman and the mother of four daughters. One day, her two older daughters disappear. To fill in their absence, the filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania invites professional actresses and invents a unique cinema experience that will lift the veil on Olfa and her daughters' life stories. An intimate journey of hope, rebellion, violence, transmission and sisterhood that will question the very foundations of our societies.
Direction
Ben Hania blurs documentary and fiction until you can't tell which hurts more.
Acting
Olfa playing herself opposite actors as her missing daughters: devastating meta-theater.
Editing
Seamless weaving of reconstruction, testimony, and painful silences.
Director
Kaouther Ben Hania
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The first Tunisian film nominated for the Best Documentary Feature Oscar, sparking debates about whether its hybrid form 'counts' as documentary.
Ben Hania discovered Olfa's story through a viral video of her criticizing the Tunisian government for failing to stop her daughters' radicalization—then convinced her to collaborate on this unprecedented cinematic experiment.
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