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April 9, 1938, stampedes ( Tunisia 2012 )

Color: Fiction color, 15’

Direction: Sawssen Saya & Tarak Khalladi

Screenplay: Sawssen Saya

Director of Photography: Mohamed Maghraoui

Sound: Moncef Taleb

Music: Zakia Bouassida, Mahdi Ahmadi

Editing: Karim Ben Hamouda

Cast: Samia Rhaiem Sawssen Maalej Sondess Belahssen Lobna Noomen Bilel Briki Rim Hamrouni Najwa Zouhir Brahim Zarrouk

Production: Izas Films

Synopsis

Stampede, tells the story of a brothel in an old district of Tunis, where the owner uses her «business» for the liberation of the country by collecting information and by hiding the weapons of the resistance. Patience for these women will end when a young teenager, protected from the ladies, is killed in the event of 9 April 1938.

Réalisateur

born in Tunis. After studying literature, she went the Higher Institute of Art and Multimedia (ISAMM). She is an assistant director, a journalist, a presenter, a plastic artist. She directed a short film Fairy / Male (2009)