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- 2021
- ArtMattan Productions
- 1 h 35 m
- 2021
- ArtMattan Productions
- 1 h 35 m
Summary 11 year old Aziz needs a liver transplant after being seriously injured during a terrorist ambush while on holiday in 2011. At the hospital a family secret will be revealed.
Written By: Mehdi Barsaoui
- 2021
- ArtMattan Productions
- 1 h 35 m
- 2021
- ArtMattan Productions
- 1 h 35 m
A Son
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Summary 11 year old Aziz needs a liver transplant after being seriously injured during a terrorist ambush while on holiday in 2011. At the hospital a family secret will be revealed.
Written By: Mehdi Barsaoui
Top Cast
Shot in anamorphic, with long, silent scenes backed only by Amin Bouhafa’s haunting score, there is not a spare word or wasted image in the 92-minute running time. It should be said that this is not an easy watch, by any means. But it would be fair to call it a revelatory one.
While “A Son” has allegorical parables with the political evolution of not just Tunisia but the whole MENA region, the first rate-acting, the very credible environments, and the straightforward, tight-as-a-drum direction make it hum with a directness that few social problem movies can muster.
As the tone, vibe and storytelling parts shift and shift again — the movie is by turns a hospital drama, a marriage melodrama, a black-market intrigue — Meriem and especially Fares draw you near, push you away and prompt you to choose sides.
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Production Company
Cinétéléfilms,
Dolce Vita Films,
13 Productions,
Metafora Production,
Sunnyland Film,
Jour2Fête,
Centre National du Cinéma et de l'Image,
Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC),
Région Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur,
La Région Île-de-France,
Schortcut Films
Release Date Dec 10, 2021
Duration 1 h 35 m
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Awards
Cairo International Film Festival
• 3 Wins & 3 Nominations
Hainan International Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
Lumiere Awards, France
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations