Beauty and the Dogs (2017)

Original title

على كف عفريت

Directed by

Kaouther Ben Hania

Genre

drama film, thriller film

Country

Tunisia, Lebanon, Sweden, France

Runtime

1h 35m

Rated

U

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 87 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young Tunisian woman seeks help from a hospital after a violent sexual assault. She struggles against bureaucratic indifference and social hostility as she tries to report the crime.

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What happens

Beauty and the Dogs (Arabic: على كف عفريت, romanized: ʿAlā kaff ʿifrīt, lit. 'In the Palm of a Devil') is a 2017 internationally co-produced drama film directed by Kaouther Ben Hania. It premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival. It was selected as the Tunisian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy Awards, but was not nominated. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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