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Drama
2020
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Fiction
The Scarecrows (Les épouvantails)
Year of release in Luxembourg
2020
Director
Nouri Bouzid
Luxembourg producer
SAMSA FILM
In co-production with
- Mesange Films (TN)
- Lycia Productions (MA)
Script
Nouri Bouzid
Original version
- French
- Arabic
Duration
100 minutes
Type of financing
- AIDE FINANCIÈRE SÉLECTIVE (AFS) À LA PRODUCTION CINEWORLD
International sales
MPM Premium Film
Marie-Pierre Macia
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Cast and crew
Cast
- Nour Hajri (Zina)
- Afef Ben Mahmoud (Nadia)
- Joumene Limam (Djo)
- Mehdi Hajri (Driss)
- Sondos Belhassen (Saida)
- Fatma Ben Saidane (Dora)
- Noomene Hamda (Kamel)
Crew
- Hatem Nechi Image
- Moez Cheikh Sound
- Chalya Lacrois, Seifedine Ben Salem, Hafedh Laridhi Editing
- Riadh Fehri Music
- Nabil Cherif Costumes
- Montasser Ben Mahmoud VFX
Synopsis
January 2014. Zina and Joe, around 20, return to Tunisia from the Syrian front where they were sequestrated and raped. Zina has been separated from her two-month-old child, and Joe, being pregnant, locks herself in mutism and only talks about Syrian horror through her next novel « Raped ». Nadia, a lawyer, and Dora, a humanitarian doctor, accompany them in their long and difficult reconstruction; between violence of relatives, hard feedback from social networks, and misery. Nadia, also a lawyer of Driss, 21, persecuted homosexual and expelled from all schools, asks her to help Zina…
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