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À peine j'ouvre les yeux
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À peine j'ouvre les yeux

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Duration
1 hr 37 min
Tunis, summer 2010, a few months before the Revolution. Her family already sees her as a doctor, but Farah wants something different. She sings with a politically active rock band. Hayet, her mother, tries to warn her: she can't expect to openly attack the powers-that-be, without there being consequences...

Directed by: Leyla Bouzid (France/Tunisia/Belgium, 2015)
Screenplay by: Leyla Bouzid, Marie-Sophie Chambon
Cast: Baya Medhaffar (Farah), Ghalia Benali (Hayet), Montassar Ayari (Borhène), Aymen Omrani (Ali), Lassaad Jamoussi (Mahmoud), Deena Abdelwahed (Inès), Youssef Soltana (Ska), Marwen Soltana (Sami), Najoua Mathlouthi (Ahlem)
Genre: drama
Awards: official selection (2015 Toronto TIFF); Europa Cinemas Label Audience Prize for the Best European Film (2015 Venice Film Festival); Golden Bayard for the Best First Film (2015 FIFF de Namur)