GREATER ADRIA
FOUR DAUGHTERS
DIRECTOR: Kaouther Ben Hania
COUNTRY: France, Saudi Arabia, Germany, Tunisia, Cyprus
YEAR/DURATION: 2023. • 107′
documentary
Info
- SCREENPLAY: Kaouther Ben Hania
- CINEMATOGRAPHY: Farouk Laâridh
- EDITOR: Qutaiba Barhamji
- SCORE: Amine Bouhafa
- CAST: Hend Sabri, Eya Chikhaoui, Tayssir Chikhaoui, Olfa Hamrouni
- PRODUCER: Nadim Cheikhrouha
- PRODUCTION COMPANIES: Tanit Films, Cinétéléfilms, Twenty Twenty Vision
- DISTRIBUTION: Discovery Film & Video
Synopsis
Between light and darkness stands Olfa, a Tunisian woman and the mother of four daughters. One day, her two older daughters disappear. To fill in their absence, the filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania invites professional actresses and sets up an extraordinary film mechanism to unveil the story of Olfa and her daughters. Four Daughters is a unique cinema experience and an intimate journey full of hope, rebellion, violence, intergenerational transmission and sisterhood, which will question the very foundation of our societies.
Festivals and awards
Big Stamp Award for the Best Film in the International Competition
César Award for Best Documentary Film 2024
Cannes Film Festival 2023 – The Golden Eye Award for Best Documentary Film
Chicago International Film Festival 023 – Best International Documentary – Special Mention
Academy Awards 2024 – Nomination for Best Documentary Feature Film
Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary 2024
International Documentary Association: Best Writing (2023)
Palm Springs International Film Festival 2024 – FIPRESCI Prize for Best International Feature
Trailer
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About the director
Kaouther Ben Hania
studied filmmaking in Tunis and in Paris. She directed several short films, including Sheik’s Watermelons (2018) and Wooden Hand (2013), which were selected for several international film festivals, and received numerous awards. The Challat of Tunis, her first feature-length film, opened the ACID section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival and achieved international success on both the festival circuit and cinema screens, where it would be distributed in more than 15 countries. Then, she made Zaineb Hates the Snow, a full-length documentary filmed over 6 years between Tunisia and Canada, which premiered in 2016 as part of the official selection at the 2016 Locarno Film Festival. Her fiction film Beauty and the Dogs was selected at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard section where it won the award for Best Sound Creation. Her last film The Man Who Sold His Skin, starring Monica Bellucci, was officially selected to premiere at the Venice Film Festival and was nominated at the 2021 Oscars in the Best International Feature Film category.
Screening
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- VALLI CINEMA – SUNDAY 14.7.2024.
20:00
- VALLI CINEMA – SUNDAY 14.7.2024.
FREE ENTRANCE
