THE SCARECROWS
by Nouri Bouzid
synopsis
January 2014. Zina and Joe, around 20, return to Tunisia from the Syrian front where they were sequestrated and raped. Zina has been separated from her two-month-old child, and Joe, being pregnant, locks herself in mutism and only talks about Syrian horror through her next novel "Raped". Nadia, a lawyer, and Dora, a humanitarian doctor, accompany them in their long and difficult reconstruction; between violence of relatives, hard feedback from social networks, and misery. Nadia, also a lawyer of Driss, 21, persecuted homosexual and expelled from all schools, asks her to help Zina...
international title: | The Scarecrows |
original title: | Les épouvantails |
country: | Tunisia, Morocco, Luxembourg |
year: | 2019 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Nouri Bouzid |
film run: | 100' |
screenplay: | Nouri Bouzid |
cast: | Nour Hajri, Afef Ben Mahmoud, Joumene Limam, Mehdi Hajri, Sondos Belhassen, Fatma Ben Saidane, Noomene Hamda |
cinematography by: | Hatem Nechi |
film editing: | Chalya Lacrois |
art director: | Seifedine Ben Salem, Hafedh Laridhi |
costumes designer: | Nabila Cherif |
music: | Riadh El Fehri |
production: | Samsa Film, Mesange Films (TN), Lycia Productions (MA) |