Le Facebook de mon père
Erige Sehiri
France, Palestine, United Arab Emirates | 2012 | 21 min
Languages : Arabic, French
Subtitles : French, English
In the home of the director’s father, the Tunisian revolution and the discovery of social networks – key elements in political change in the Maghreb – are producing a metamorphosis. Opening a Facebook account allows him to rebuild a connection with the country he left 40 years earlier. We discover the relationship of a man with his origins, as well as the bonds between father and daughter.
In the home of the director’s father, the Tunisian revolution and the discovery of social networks – key elements in political change in the Maghreb – are producing a metamorphosis. The decision to open a Facebook account allowed him to rebuild and reinforce a connection with the country he left 40 years earlier. He thus undergoes an awakening of consciousness and spirit through “this revolution that is the only one to have been led by the people, without leaders, without the elite”. Erige Sehiri delicately shows the relationship of a man with his origins, his past and his present, as well as the strong yet sometimes complex bonds between father and daughter. Through complicit dialogue, she discovers the unknown facets of her father: in questioning him, she also questions an entire generation that had left behind their country and their dreams to find themselves elsewhere, before they, or at least some of them, felt the need to return. And it is precisely this lure that pushes the father to return to his village, with the desire to once more belong to his country, to his people.
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