Fatwa (2018)

Original title

فتوى

Directed by

Mahmoud Ben Mahmoud

Genre

drama film

Country

Tunisia

Runtime

1h 42m

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Tunisian man living in France returns to his home country after his son dies. He discovers his son was involved with an extremist Islamic group before the death.

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What happens

Fatwa is a 2018 Tunisian drama film directed by Mahmoud Ben Mahmoud and co-produced by Habib Ben Hedi, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, and Luc Dardenne. The film stars Ahmed Hafiane with Ghalia Benali, Sarra Hannachi, Jamel Madani, and Mohamed Maghlaoui in supporting roles. The film revolves around Brahim Nadhour, a man who returns to Tunis from France and finds out that his son Marouane was working for a radical Islamic group before his death. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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