A small village in the Tunisian countryside is shaken by the consecutive return of three inhabitants who were thought to be dead. The appearance of these returnees triggers a process of investigation that unveils the traumas of the place. In his long-awaited new film after Tlamess (2019), Ala Eddine Slim imbricates some of his usual concerns, such as the difficulties of resuming a normal life after a traumatic experience or the exploration of the symbolic force of images, in a proposal that combines police procedural with zombie cinema to delve into the buried wounds of post-revolution Tunisia. A story with a powerfully unsettling atmosphere is framed by the conversation between a crow and a blue dog lying on the ground. An ontological and narrative revision of the link between animals, humans and the environment that earned Agora the Green Leopard at the Locarno Festival.
Ala Eddine Slim
Tunisian filmmaker. He has directed several short films, art videos and feature films, selected and multi-awarded in many international film festivals (Clermont-Ferrand, Grand Prix FID Marseille 2012 for ‘Babylon’, Lion of the Future, Best Technical Contribution at the Venice Film Festival 2016, and Tanit d’Or at the JCC 2016 for ‘The Last of Us’). ‘Tlamess’ (2019) was his second fiction film, a Franco-Tunisian co-production supported by the Franco-Tunisian fund, the Tunisian Ministry of Culture Fund, the Aide aux Cinemas du Monde of the CNC and the World Cinema Fund Europe. Agora’ (2024) had its world premiere at the Locarno International Film Festival, where it won the Pardo Verde Ricola Award.
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