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Sticky skin


Sticky skin

Kaouther Ben-Hania - Tunisia


Synopsis

Amira, 5 years old, lives with her mother in a cramped apartment in Tunis. On her first day at Koranic school, Amira desperately tries to steal a few more hours or vacation. Yet the best way she found was to glue her hand to an armchair…



Film details

Type : Fiction
Duration : 23 min
Year of production : 2013
Country : Tunisia
Screenwriter : Kaouther Ben-Hania
Cinematography : Hazem Berrabah
Editor : Valentin Féron
Director : Kaouther Ben-Hania
Production company : Paprika Films





Kaouther Ben-Hania

She studied at the Art and Cinema School of Tunis. During her course, she directed several short films. In 2004, she continued her training at FEMIS. She directed several feature films awarded in various festivals. The first of these feature films is The Challat of Tunis 2014. Her feature film Beauty and the dogs 2017, was selected in the Un Certain Regard category at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival and in 2018, was selected to represent Tunisia at the 2019 Oscars in the best foreign movie category.