Directing
After a retired teacher experiences a peculiar encounter, his life takes an unexpected turn when he starts to walk only backwards as he finds himself navigating the challenges of economic decline in post-revolutionary Tunisia.
Film adapted from the original work of Abdeljabbar Eleuch “The events of the strange city”. One night, in a Tunis plunged into the socio-economic crisis, a bar is open: the Universe. Customers quietly drink their beers. Salah, a regular, tries to get up from his chair but can't. From there, the world stirs around him to free him.
In a marginalized Tunisian neighborhood, a young man in a wheelchair dreams of crossing the Mediterranean Sea until a surreal encounter shifts his path.
On a farm situated on a hill at the Tunisian-Algerian border Gisela Bergman, a German woman in her eighties, lived for more than half a century. She bred a line of pure-bred Arabian horses and lived in harmony with nature, despite the harshness of the conditions. After her death, Amara, together with Zouhayer, continues the daily struggle to keep Mrs. Bergman’s dream alive.
