Four Daughters (2023)
- Original title
- Les Filles d'Olfa
- Directed by
- Kaouther Ben Hania
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, Germany, France
- Runtime
- 1h 50m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 7.4 of 10 from 111 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A Tunisian mother and her remaining daughters recount what happened when two of the daughters left to join extremist fighters in Libya. The director uses actors to play the missing family members in reenactments of their memories.
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What happens
Four Daughters (Arabic: بنات ألفة, romanized: Banāt Olfa, French: Les Filles d'Olfa, lit. 'Olfa's Daughters') is a 2023 Arabic-language documentary film directed by Kaouther Ben Hania. The film tells the story of a Tunisian family after two of four daughters leave to join Daesh fighters in Libya. The filmmaker invites professional actors to stand in for the missing daughters and others in the retelling of the story. The film is an international co-production between France, Tunisia, Germany, and Saudi Arabia. The film competed for the Palme d'Or at the 76th Cannes Film Festival, where it had its world premiere on 19 May 2023. It was released in France on 5 July 2023. It was selected as the Tunisian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards and was nominated for Best Documentary Feature. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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