Machtat

Photo: Khamsin Films/Alter Ego Production

Directed by Sonia Ben Slama
Duration 82’ | Arabic with English subtitles

Production Country, Year Tunisia/Lebanon/France/Qatar, 2023 | Produced by Khamsin Films/Alter Ego Production | Producers Tania El Khoury, Cécile Lestrade, Elise Hug | Director of Photography Evgenia Alexandrova | Sound Saoussen Tatah | Sound Design Rana Eid | Editor Young Sun Noh | Sound Mixing Lama Sawaya | Colour Grading Alexandra Pocquet | Distributed by Les films de l’Altaï

Fatma and her two daughters, Najeh and Waffeh, are machtat, wedding musicians in Mahdia, a small city in Tunisia. The sisters follow opposite paths: while Najeh, divorced, tries to remarry to escape the authority of her brothers, Waffeh wishes to divorce her violent husband. And Fatma navigates between the two, praying that things will go better one day.

Sonia Ben Slama is a Tunisian-French documentary filmmaker. In 2015, she directed her first feature documentary Maktoub. Her second feature documentary, Machtat, premiered in the International Competition at Visions du Réel Film Festival 2023 and is part of the ACID Cannes 2023 program. Her new documentary, 316 North Main Street, is in development.

Date
Starts 26. Oct., 20:15. Ends 26. Oct., 21:45.