Aicha

By Mehdi M. Barsaoui

With: Fatma Sfar, Yasmine Dimassi, Nidhal Saadi

Aya, in her late twenties, still lives with her parents in southern Tunisia and feels trapped in a life without prospects. One day, the minivan in which she commutes daily between her town and the hotel where she works crashes. As the sole survivor of the accident, she realizes it could be her chance to start a new life. She flees to Tunis under a new identity, but everything is soon compromised when she becomes the main witness to a police blunder.

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Festivals & Awards

2024 Venice International Film Festival – Best Mediterranean Film

Rio International Film Festival 2024 – Expectations

BFI London Film Festival 2024 – Thrill section

Seville European Film Festival 2024 – Rampa

International Film Festival of India, GOA 2024 – Cinema of the World

39th Mar del Plata International Film Festival – SIGNIS Award for Best International Film

Red Sea International Film Festival 2024 – Competition

Press

« Mehdi M. Barsaoui directs Fatma Sfar in an electric performance as a Tunisian woman on an unexpected journey of reinvention »

– Fionnuala Halligan, SCREENDAILY

 

«  ‘Aïcha’ is the hidden gem of Venice »

– Connor Lightbody, NEXT BEST PICTURE

 

« Very engaging, a top-to-bottom accounting of Tunisian society »

– David Katz, CINEUROPA

 

« Exciting and enlightening change of life thriller from Tunisian filmmaker Mehdi Barsaoui. »

– Meredith Taylor, FILMUFORIA

 

« Powerful Statement »

– Clotilde Chinnici, LOUDANDCLEAR REVIEWS

 

« Aicha is a gripping, thrilling study of the evolution of a young woman… »

– Alexa Dalby, DOG AND WOLF

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