Event info

Leyla Bouzid
TUN 2016 / 102 min

It‘s the summer of 2010, just before the start of the revolution in Tunisia, that led to the Arab spring. 18 year old Farah has just graduated and her parents see her as a future doctor. But she‘s more interested in the political rock band she fronts as the lead singer and continues to sing and rebel even as the police begin to follow her and her movements are monitored. With a passion for life she gets drunk, discovers love and her city by night against the will of her mother Hayet, who knows Tunisia and its dangers all too well.

The film was Tunisia submission for the Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards.

Screenings:
February 26th, at 16:45
March 4th, at 20:30
March 5th, at 14:00