On Sunday, 16 June Four Daughters (2023) by Kaouther Ben Hania is presented. The movie won the Golden Eye Award at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated at the 2024 Oscars for best documentary film. The projection of the film, which will be released by I Wonder on 27 June, is accompanied by a conversation between the director and Paolo Moretti.
An extraordinary cinematic experiment that explores the boundaries between reality and fiction to reconstruct the path that led two teenagers to join the ranks of Isis, Four Daughters is Kaouther Ben Hania’s latest feature film. Out of the surprising dialogue between actors and real-life characters in a complex dramatic story comes an intimate, compelling, and surprising film about the disillusioned hopes of post-Arab Spring Tunisia and the system of oppression women face in the country. Presented in competition at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Golden Eye Award, Four Daughters won twenty-one international awards, including Best Documentary at the 2024 Césars. Nominated at the last Oscars for Best Documentary film.
The event is part of #Anteprima, the section that reveals unreleased films before they hit Italian theatres.
BIOGRAPHY
Kaouther Ben Hania was born in Tunisia on 28 August 1977. He studied from 2002 to 2004 at the École des arts et du cinéma in Tunis, making several short films, including La Brèche. After working until 2007 for Al Jazeera Documentary Channel, he graduated from the University Sorbonne Nouvelle. She made her feature film directorial debut with Le Challat de Tunis, a documentary on the condition of women in Tunisia made from a news story. She returned to the same theme in 2017 with La bella e le bestie, inspired by a rape case and presented in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2017 Cannes Film Festival. His film L’uomo che vendette la sua pelle (2020) was the first Tunisian film to be nominated for an Oscar for Best International Film.