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Original name: Bik Eneich: Un Fils
English name: A Son
Year:2019
Run time: 96 Minutes
Language: Arabic, Tunisian dialect
Type (Colour/ Black & white):Colour
Country: Tunisia, France, Lebanon, Qatar
Director: Mehdi M. Barsaoui
Producers: HabibAttia, Marc Irmer, Chantal Fischer
Cast: Sami Bouajila, Najla Ben Abdallah, Youssef Khemiri
Screenplay: Mehdi M. Barsaoui
Cinematographer: Antoine Herberle
Editor: Camille Toubkis
Sound Designer: Lucas Herbele
Music Composers: Amine Bouhafa
Costume Designer: Randa Khedher
Production Designer: Sophie Abelkefi
Production Company: Dolce Vita Films, 13 Productions, Cinetelefilms (TN)
World Sales: Jour2Fete
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Mehdi M. Barsaoui was born in 1984 and raised in Tunisia, He is a graduate of the Higher Institute of Multimedia Arts of Tunis and holds a degree in film direction from DAMS in Bologna, Italy. He has directed three short-films to date. His most recent, We’re Just Fine Like This, won the Golden Muhrfor Best Film in Dubai in 2016. His international career begins with A Son, his debut feature-length film, selected at the 76thVenice International Film Festival.
When driving home from southern Tunisia, Fares and Meriem's car is hit by a stray bullet during an ambush by an armed group; their young son Aziz's liver is punctured. At a local hospital, the need for a transplant uncovers a secret that risks Aziz's life should a donor not be found in time. But this is only the beginning of the unexpected twists in a story so deftly crafted that it offers both a probing look at Tunisian society's anchored social and legal realities, and an unshakable need to ask yourself what you would do in the same situation. As we watch their world falls apart, and the subtleties of the couple's shifting emotions, the question is, will Aziz and the relationship survive?
