Horizon of Arab Cinema · 43rd Edition
A Second Life
Director
Anis Lassoued, Anis Lassoued
Country
Tunisia
Runtime
1 h 33 min
Language
Arabic
Premiere
World Premiere
Synopsis
Gadeha (12) happens one day to be the victim of a car accident. He undergoes surgery. Penniless, his mother, Borkana, is helped by Malika and Moez, a benevolent couple that offers to pay for the hospital fees and provides the destitute family with a roof. Gadeha meets Oussama, Malika and Moez’s child (11) who is recovering from a kidney transplant. A strong friendship is made between the two boys. But Gadeha finds out haphazardly the secret of his family's new standard of living. He is devastated.
Cast
Jamel Laroui, Chema BEN CHAABENE, Yassine Tormsi, Mohamed Zakaria Chiboub
Screenplay
Chema BEN CHAABENE, Anis Lassoued
Producers
Chema BEN CHAABENE
About the Director
A Tunisian director has a degree from the IMC – Institut Maghrébin de Cinéma - Tunis and the University of Tor Vergata - Rome. In 2006, he made his first short "Magic crop". In 2012, he shot a fiction Sabbat El Aïd (My Shoes). In 2016, he received the National Award for the Protection of Children’s Rights for his cinematographic work defending Children’s Rights. "A second life" is his first feature.
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