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Shudders ( Tunisia 2011 )

Color: Fiction, color, 22’

Direction: Leyla Bouzid

Screenplay: Marie-Sophie Chambon- Leyla Bouzid

Director of Photography: Alexandra Sabathé

Sound: Quentin Lepoutre

Music: Anouar Brahem

Editing: Louise Jaillette

Production: Hubert Charuel

Synopsis

In the homes of the Tunisian bourgeoisie when a dramatic event occurs, everything is done to hide it. A girl comes home with her face covered in blood, she has been attacked. Her mother and brother help her but at the same time make her feel guilty. Her father is kept in the dark. Grief and pity will lead the mother once and for all to take her daughter’s side.

Réalisateur

Leyla Bouzid was born in Tunis. After graduation, she studied French literature in Paris. She began her career in the cinema as assistant director on several films and in 2006 she co-directed her first short film, Sbeh el Khir. She studied directing at the FEMIS in Paris.