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Keywords

  • Award Winning
  • Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis
  • Future of Work
  • Label: SWISS FILMS
  • Screen: North Africa
  • Africa
  • family
  • middle east
  • politics
  • relationship
  • women
  • work

Actors

  • Nozha Khouadra
  • Samia Mzali

Director

  • Nadia Fares

Timeless


1h 16min


16+

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Switzerland
Tunisia
1996
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Naima, a doctor, Amina, a graduate, and Leila, a young student, are pursuing their individual routes to an independent life when their paths cross.

Naima, a doctor, Amina, a graduate, and Leila, a young student, are pursuing their individual routes to an independent life when their paths cross.


HONEY AND ASHES sheds light on the story and fate of three women trapped between tradition and modern life in North Africa today.


Naima, a doctor, Amina, a graduate, and Leila, a young student, are pursuing their individual routes to an independent life when their paths cross. “Fares’ script is intelligent and dramatically involving.” (Variety)


Aged just twenty, Leila (Nozha Khouadra) is a young, rebellious woman with an unbridled desire for freedom. She leaves her family and embarks on a degree course in the city. Amina (Amel Ledhili), aged 30, marries her former, liberal university professor and believes she has found a degree of stability in her life. She tries to keep her small family intact, until the jealousy of her husband destroys everything.

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