Mohamed Zran
Tunisia, France | 2002 | 79 min
Language : Arabic
Subtitle : English
Mohamed Zran uses his hometown of Zarzis, in southern Tunisia, as the starting point for this passionate road movie. The project emerged from his desire to know and become reconciled with his country, “to tell Tunisian stories and film the Tunisia I love.” The film thus gives shape to a topography that is at once geographic, ethnographic, social and political.
Mohamed Zran uses his hometown of Zarzis, in southern Tunisia, as the starting point for this passionate road movie. The project emerged from his desire to know and become reconciled with his country, “to tell Tunisian stories and film the Tunisia I love“. The film thus gives shape to a topography that is at once geographical, ethnographical, social and political. The stages of this journey are punctuated by encounters and landscapes, thus forming a filmic narrative of the territory: fishermen by the sea, the shepherdess in the mountainous hinterland, the teacher in a remote village, the farmers making hay in the countryside, the market sellers at the Libyan border, the carpet maker, the youngsters in the Internet café in town, the temple guard in the middle of the desert… His journey comes to an end in Tunis, the noisy and densely populated capital. Zran relates these encounters, skilfully ensuring his tales avoid erring towards the romantic. Each person and their context incarnate one of the facets of a country undergoing deep changes and asking itself many questions.
Jasmin Basic
