2023 Oscar® Selection, Tunisia
UNDER THE FIG TREES [TAHT ALSHAJRA] [تحت شجر التين]
Sun, March 26, 2:30 p.m.; Thurs, March 30, 5:00 p.m.
One hot, summer day in a fig orchard in northwest Tunisia, a crew of workers arrives at dawn to begin work on the seasonal harvest. Though the group is made up of both men and women of all ages, the young women of the group stick by one another as they work under the foreman's watchful gaze. Stealing away for precious moments of fun and gossip, the girls also flirt with their male counterparts, exploring their budding feelings of desire when not busy picking figs. Meanwhile, the older women tasked with the careful job of packaging the tender fruit, watch and reminisce together about their own past lives and loves. A casual meeting ground where men and women from different generations can interact with less formality than they would in town, the orchard also represents a relic of rural ways of life. The young women are reminded that the small taste of freedom and fun their work provides with comes with its own limitations. Unfolding over the course of a single day, Erige Sehiri's narrative debut is a tender portrait of discovery and connection in a rural society where class, gender and circumstance often don't allow for such personal freedoms. With an ensemble, intergenerational cast of non-professional actors, the film reveals that sisterhood itself can be an act of resistance against the patriarchy. (Note adapted from Film Movement.) DIR/SCR/PROD Erige Sehiri; SCR Ghalya Lacroix, Peggy Hamann; PROD Didar Domehri, Palmyre Badinier. Tunisia/France/Switzerland/Germany/Qatar, 2021, color, 92 min. In Arabic with English subtitles. NOT RATED
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