“Under the figs”: Tunisian agricultural workers, heroines in the cinema
Confidences, budding loves, disputes and rivalries… This first fiction feature film by Erige Sehiri, shot in full been in the underprivileged northwest of Tunisia. In her film, the Franco-Tunisian filmmaker wanted to show young rural Tunisian women “so modern and connected” in disadvantaged areas, able to create a space of freedom in a conservative environment. … Read more
