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The Bottom Of The Pit ( Tunisia 2011 )

Color: Fiction, color, 14’

Direction: Moez Ben Hassen

Screenplay: Moez Ben Hassen

Director of Photography: Enrico Lucidi

Sound: Mohsen Friji

Music: Fares Trabelssi

Editing: Ans Saadi

Cast: Dalila Meftahi Med Saasi Ghorbal

Production: Production: Perspective Production

Synopsis

Lotfi, invaded by despair, thinks about suicide. But then, he finds himself engulfed in a terrible nightmare in which he sees the person most dear to him, his mother Khadija, suffer the consequences of his terrible decision. The mental anguish and guilt towards his get him back from what he believes to be his deliverance.

Réalisateur

Born in Sfax in 1972, he studied screenwriting and directing at the “Institut Magrébin de Cinéma. He wrote and directed two short films: Walk and le Fond Du Puits. He also wrote a short film called The Gate of Forgiveness by Italian director Francesco Sperandeo.