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Coloquinte ( Tunisia 2012 )

Color: Documentary, color, 52’

Direction: Mahmoud Jemni

Screenplay: Mahmoud Jemni

Director of Photography: ALI BEN ABDALLAH & Habib MESTIRI

Sound: Imed METHNANI

Music: Ali CHEMSEDDINE

Editing: Arbi BEN ALI

Cast: 14 anciens détenus politiques, un psychiatre, un militant des Droits de l’Homme et un ancien responsable de police.

Production: 14 anciens détenus politiques, un psychiatre, un militant des Droits de l’Homme et un ancien responsable de police.

Synopsis

"Colocynth" is a wild plant which fruits give a very bitter pulp. This bitter taste is also the fruit of a language used by people who were born around March, 20, 1956, date of Tunisian Independence. These speeches of people of various age, sex, and ideologies, reveal the ill-treatment they experienced during the period of their detention at both physical and psychological levels. "Coloquinte" explores an inhuman past and aims at stopping the pain and bitterness, and making sure such atrocities will not happen in the future.

Réalisateur

Mahmoud Jemni was trained in film societies. He assisted René Vautier in “Having twenty years in the Aures and The Madwoman of Toujane. He made a series of short films with young people aged 11 to 12 years as part of the project "Education in the image" that he initiates in his teaching. He is also film critic, a member of jury in many festivals and initiator and supervisor of Children’s Jury (JCC 2008 and 2010).