| Director: | Mohamed Ben Attia |
|---|---|
| Production: | Nomadis Images (Dora Bouchoucha Fourati, Lina Chaabane Menzli), Les Films du fleuve (Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, Delphine Tomson), Tanit Films (Nadim Cheikhrouha), 010 Films (Giovanni Robbiano, Lorenzo Rapetti, Giovanni Giusto), Red Sea Fund, Metafora, Sunnyland Art, VOO et Be Tv, Paolo Maria Spina |
| Running Time: | 98’ |
| Language: | Tunisian Arabic |
| Country: | Tunisia, Belgium, France, Italy, Saudi Arabia, Qatar |
| Main Cast: | Majd Mastoura, Samer Bisharat, Walid Bouchhioua, Selma Zeghidi, Helmi Dridi, Wissem Belgharek |
| Screenplay: | Mohamed Ben Attia |
| Cinematographer: | Frederic Noirhomme |
| Editor: | Lenka Fillnerova |
| Production Designer: | Fatma Madani |
| Costume Designer: | Olfa Attouchi |
| Music: | Olivier Marguerit |
| Sound: | Ludovic Escallier, Quentin Colette, Jean-Stephane Garbe |
| Visual Effects: | Compagnie générale des effets visuels CGEV |
Cinema
Oura el jbel (Behind the mountains)
Orizzonti
Synopsis
After spending four years in jail, Rafik has only one plan, to take his son behind the mountains and show him his amazing discovery.
Director's Statement
It’s 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.
I wanted to show a man capable of widening the spectrum of possible in a country which has become schizophrenic, a world that has become absurd.
Production/Distirbution
PRODUCTION 1: Dora Bouchoucha Fourati, Lina Chaabane Menzli – Nomadis Images
11, Rue Mami
2070 – La Marsa, Tunisia
Tel. +216 71749080
Mob. +216 98327916
dora.bouchoucha@gmail.com
PRODUCTION 2: Jean Pierre Dardenne,Luc Dardenne,Delphine Tomson – Les Films Du Fleuve
Quai de Gaulle, 13
4020 – Liege, Belgium
Tel. +32 43495690
Mob. +32 498259550
delphine.t@lesfilmsdufleuve.be
PRODUCTION 3: Nadim Cheikhrouha – Tanit Films
61, Rue Piat
75020 – Paris, France
Tel. +33 682086487
nadim.cheikhrouha@gmail.com
PRODUCTION 4: Giovanni Robbiano, Lorenzo Rapetti, Giovanni Giusto – 010 FILMS
Via Malta, 2/10
16121 – Genova, Italia
Tel. +39 3484210098
production@010films.com
OTHER COPRODUCTIONS: Red Sea Fund - Metafora - Sunnyland Art - Voo Et Be Tv – Revolver Films
WORLD SALES: Fiorella Moretti – Luxbox
6, Rue Jean Pierre Timbaud
75011 – Paris, France
Tel. +33 626100765
fiorella@luxboxfilms.com
PRESS OFFICE: Viviana Andriani – Rendez Vous PR
75, rue des Martyrs
75018 – Paris, France
Tel. +33 142663635
Mob. +33 680168139
viviana@rv-press.com
