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Cursed be the phosphate ( Tunisia 2012 )

Color: Documentary, color, 84’

Direction: SAMI TLILI

Screenplay: Sami Tlili

Director of Photography: Hatem Nechi, Hazem Berrabah, Adonis Ramadhan

Sound: Houssem Ksouri

Music: Rabiaa Bouhrizi, Myriam Laabidi

Editing: Anis Hammami, Achraf Amri

Cast: Béchir Abidi, Adel jayyar, Laila Khaled Abidi, Adnan Hajji, jomaa Hajji, modhaffar Abidi, Haroun Haleimi

Production: Cinetelefilms / Nomadis

Synopsis

January 5, 2008, a sit-in organized by some unemployed people in front of the city hall of Redeyef in the southwest of Tunisia was the beginning of a civil disobedience movement, which lasted six months. 21 years after "the medical coup" that put him in power, General Ben Ali witnessed his first popular uprising.

Réalisateur

Born on 1985 in Kairouan, Tunisia, Sami Tlili is a director. University lecturer at the Faculty of Humanities of Sousse, Tunisia, he teaches the history of art, francophone literature and African cinema. Former active member of the movement of Ciné-Club and the Tunisian Federation of Amateur Filmmakers (FTCA), he has to his credit three short films . “Cursed be the phosphate” is his first feature documentary.