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Euronews speaks to Kaouther Ben Hania whose Palme d’Or-nominated movie entitled ‘4 Daughters’ has acquired Cannes speaking… and pondering.
On the Cannes Movie Competition, Tunisian movie director Kaouther Ben Hania is inflicting a storm. The academy-award nominated director is within the race for this yr’s Palme d’Or together with her movie ‘4 Daughters’.
Talking with Euronews, she described how she felt rubbing shoulders with a number of the trade’s largest names.
“I used to be, not thrilled, however overjoyed after I was introduced as being within the official competitors, and after I realized the names of the opposite administrators, Ken Loach, Wes Anderson, Wim Wenders… it is simply loopy what’s occurring to me and I am very comfortable to be right here,” she defined.
Set within the context of the ‘Jasmine revolution’ that introduced down Tunisian President Ben Ali in 2011, ‘4 Daughters’ mixes fiction and actuality to inform the story of Olfa, a mom who noticed two of her daughters be a part of the Islamic State.
“I discovered it fascinating how the story of Olfa and her daughters, the small story is linked to the large story of Tunisia, how the Revolution (of 2011) affected their lives -in truth Olfa says it at one point-, “When there was the Revolution I needed to make my revolution too, divorce my husband, depart…” Freedom, that is it.”
The movie hyperlinks actual testimonies and re-enacted scenes involving Olfa and her two youthful daughters with skilled actresses.
The result’s the delicate telling of a novel story made doable by a movie crew composed largely of girls.
“After we began filming, or at the very least the preparation, I needed to decide on a really female workforce, and even the boys who had been on the set, I needed them to be “girls’s pleasant” as they are saying, as a result of I knew that I used to be going to take everybody into an intimate confession, one thing very therapeutic, very introspective and really female about Olfa, her daughters, their tales, but in addition the actresses. It was crucial to have a protected area the place everybody was empathetic, not judgmental.”
21 movies are competing for this yr’s Palme d’Or – which can be awarded on Saturday 27 Might.
