ROma, Jul 16th. (askanews) – Aya is thirty years old, lives a life without dreams in a town in southern Tunisia and, when the minivan that the door to work remains involved in an accident of which she is the only survivor, she presents her the unique opportunity to disappear and start her life from the head. It happens in “A stranger in Tunis”, in cinemas from 24 July.
Director Mehdi M. Barsaoui took inspiration from a fact of news to tell the Tunisian youth and the many contradictions of the country after the 2010 revolution. The protagonist, played by the talented Fatma Sfar, in the capital discovers freedom, nightlife, a lively world and in turmoil, but remains involved in a case of police abuse.
In fact, there are many paradoxes of one of the most modern and free countries in the Arab world, where, however, most of the population is limited to surviving instead of living. Aya between frustration, social injustice, family pressures, impersonates a tormented and cheated Tunisian youth, full of dreams and thirst for freedom, sacrificed on the altar of the social, religious and economic ideology of a country. Where the family authority, misogyny, and above all police corruption, condition anyone.
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