Gods, Weeds and Revolutions (2012)
- Directed by
- Meryam Joobeur
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- Canada
- Runtime
- 20 min
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A filmmaker returns to Tunisia to see her dying grandfather and confronts the country's history under dictatorship. The film mixes family and politics.
intimatepersonalreflectivebittersweetobservationalsoberingmeditativepoignant
What happens
Gods, Weeds and Revolutions is a Canadian short documentary film, directed by Meryam Joobeur and released in 2012. The film documents Joobeur's own trip home to her native Tunisia, where she confronts her grandfather's terminal illness and the country's dark past under dictatorship. It was the winner of the Métro prize for Best Student Film at the 2013 Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois, and the Colin Low Award for Best Canadian Documentary at the 2013 DOXA Documentary Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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