Something Like a Dream (Bin Noumin) by
Khaled Barsaoui. Tunisia, 2004, 14 min, Beta SP US
première
Set in Tunisia in the 1970s, Something Like a
Dream is a haunting allegory of violence and repression. A
twelve-year old boy is thrown out of boarding school and gets caught
up in a police hunt for a labor activist. His vulnerability on the
streets echoes the anxieties and fears that marked that era in Tunisia.
In Arabic with English subtitles.
Thu, Nov 10,
9:00
Cast
and Crew:
Cast: Med Jebali, Jamal Madani Writer: Khaled Barsaoui Producer: West Side Movie Cinematographer: Mohamed Maghraoui Editor: Arbi Ben Ali
Filmmaker
Bio:
Born in 1955 in Tunisia, Khaled Barsaoui studied
sociology at the University of Algiers, and joined several ciné-clubs,
and amateurs cinéma associations. He began to make his first
short films using Super8 and 16mm cameras, amongst which Le
voleur de jasmin, La petite illusion, L'enfant et l'aveugle.
In the 1990s, he is commissioned several short films, as well as
work for television, including a long feature La fille du kiosque,
in 2002. He has just finished postproduction work on his first long
feature length film, Bîn el-widyène (Par delà
des rivières).
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Source:
West Side Movie
2, rue d'Albanie, 1001 Tunis, Tunisia
Phone: (216 98) 30 30 47
Fax: (216 71) 33 09 94
Email: kwb@gnet.tn www.westsidemovies.com