Dachra
+Tunisia in Focus
Saturday, 9/28
9:30 p.m.
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Dachra
دشرة
Abdelhamid Bouchnak
Narrative feature
113 mins | 2018
Tunisia
Arabic and French with English subtitles
Minnesota premiere
Set against the backdrop of contemporary Tunisia, Dachra revolves around Yasmin, a journalism student, and her two classmates. They set out on a university assignment to solve the cold case of Mongia, a woman found mutilated twenty-five years ago and now imprisoned in an asylum, suspected of witchcraft. As they pursue their investigation, the three friends stumble into the archaic and ominous world of Dachra, an isolated countryside compound filled with goats, silent women, mysterious drying meat, and steaming pots, and discover that it is home to a cult. When the cult’s jovial but menacing leader invites them to stay overnight, Yasmin is drawn into Dachra’s dark secrets and a desperate attempt to escape alive.
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Festivals and Awards:
Critics’ Week, Venice International Film Festival, Italy, 2018
Göteborg Film Festival, Sweden, 2019
Pan-African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 2019
Abdelhamid Bouchnak studied at the Gammarth Higher Institute of Audiovisual and Film Studies and graduated in 2008 with the short film Miroir. That year, he won the prize for Best Young Director at the International Film Festival in Carthage and moved to Montreal to complete a master’s degree in film studies. Since 2012, he has produced and directed video clips, web series, and short films. Dachra is his first feature film.
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Virile
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The Blaze (Guillaume and Jonathan Alric)
Short
5 mins | 2016
France
No dialogue, music track in English
Signed by the fitting label Bromance, The Blaze’s music video for their song “Virile” (featured on Homieland Vol. 2) captures the exhilaration of Parisian club culture and, in their words, is “an ode to friendship between two men.”
Festivals and Awards:
Best Alternative Video—International, UK Music Video Awards, UK, 2016
The Blaze are Paris-based music and video duo Guillaume and Jonathan Alric. The duo who are cousins are mostly known for their cinematographic videos. Their distinctive integrative method involves producing sound and visuals at the same time, creating an especially strong link between music and image.
