Masterclass Ala Eddine Slim

With every film, Ala Eddine Slim, a filmmaker of experiments and tangents, creates a labyrinthine and incredibly unique universe, almost entirely devoid of dialogue. Having directed several short films with his company, Exit Productions, he moved on to feature films with documentary Babylon in 2012, co-directed with Ismaël Chebbi and Youssef Chebbi and shot on the border between Tunisia and Libya. His first feature film The Last of Us (2016) received the Lion of the Future at the Venice Film Festival and was nominated for an Oscar, making Slim a significant figure in new Tunisian cinema. His latest film, Tlamess (2019), presented in its world premiere at the Directors' Fortnight, is a powerful tale of the wanderings of a soldier and a pregnant woman.

Afrique Art & Engagement

Monday 7 March

19:00

Grütli - Salle Langlois

French

Co-presented with HEAD-Genève

Introduction

Pauline Deutsch Filmmaker and program coordinator at the FIFDH

Speakers

Ala Eddine Slim Filmmaker and co-founder of the company Exit Productions

Moderated by

Giona Nazzaro Artistic Director of the Locarno Film Festival

This debat is preceded by the movie:

Projections spéciales / Masterclasses

Tlamess

By Ala Eddine Slim

Following the death of his mother, a Tunisian soldier is granted a leave to travel home, from which he will never return. He decides to quit the army and becomes a fugitive. After several run-ins with the police, he is seriously injured and takes refuge in a forest, where he meets a young pregnant woman who lives in a luxurious villa nearby. She quickly falls under the spell of this mysterious outsider.