Aïcha Aya is the sole survivor of a bus crash on a mountain road. When she realises that nobody knows she is alive, she makes a snap decision to escape her dead-end village existence and become someone else. In thriving, liberal Tunis, she calls herself Amira, a thrilling change until one of those men is murdered and the investigating police start to question “Amira”’s sketchy life story.
Sources: Red Sea International Film Festival
Awards
RT: 123 mins.
Director: MEHDI BARSAOUI
Aïcha Aya is the sole survivor of a bus crash on a mountain road. When she realises that nobody knows she is alive, she makes a snap decision to escape her dead-end village existence and become someone else. In thriving, liberal Tunis, she calls herself Amira, a thrilling change until one of those men is murdered and the investigating police start to question “Amira”’s sketchy life story.
Sources: Red Sea International Film Festival
Awards
81st Venice Film Festival: Best Mediterranean Film Award
RT: 123 mins.
Director: MEHDI BARSAOUI