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).


Print 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

 
 
 
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