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My relentless travels between Paris and Tunis provoke as many discussions with my children as questions inside me. This is a filmed diary. I embark on the journey of searching the images that nurtured me, and questioning the power they had over my life choices.
My relentless travels between Paris and Tunis provoke as many discussions with my children as questions inside me. This is a filmed diary. I embark on the journey of searching the images that nurtured me, and questioning the power they had over my life choices—family images in Super 8, political archives, and memories, all mingle. These images will summon a thwarted dream, that of participating in the democratic change in Tunisia, a past where colonization and Western dreams collide with a future inhabited by the fear of identity assignment.

Credits

Director
Fatma Chérif
Screenwriter
Fatma Chérif
Producer
Imed Marzouk, Fatma Chérif

About the Director

Fatma Chérif
Born in 1975 in Tunisia, Fatma Cherif is a Franco-Tunisian director who has always had a foot in each country. She started as a camera assistant on fiction feature films with directors such as Moufida Tlatli, Ghassan Salhab, Bruno Dumont, Frédéric Wiseman, Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, Pascal Thomas, and Alain Gomis. She has filmed several documentaries by directors such as Hala Abdalla, S
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