Thala My Love

Name: Thala My Love
Genre: Drama
Released: 2016
Duration: 87 min

Director: Mehdi Hmili

Rights:

Highlights

Received the SANAD (Abu Dhabi Film Fund) and Cinemed Montpellier Development Grant of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The film was released in Tunisia in 2017 and played in theaters for eleven consecutive weeks.

2016/ Tunisia - France - Germany87 min/ Drama

Original Title

Thala Mon Amour

SYNOPSIS

During the Tunisian revolution, Mohamed, a political prisoner, escapes from jail and returns to his native town Thala. He has only one goal: to find his fiancée Hourya. Mohamed witnesses yet another slaughter. As he carries a dead body to the hospital, a young protestor films him and the video is uploaded on Facebook. Meanwhile, we discover Hourya who lives with her husband, Adel, a quiet man who has accepted her past but forbids her of taking part in any political activity.

CAST

Moez Baatour
Najla ben Abdallah
Fatima Ben Saïdane
Rim Hamrouni

CREW

Screenwriter: Mehdi Hmili
DOP: Jimmy Boutry
Editor: Anas Saadi

Production Company(ies)

Polimovie International Pictures

Producer(s)

Mohamed Ali Ben Hamra

Carthage Film Festival (JCC), Tunisia

MedFilm Festival, Italy

Torino Film Festival, Italy

Luxor African Film Festival (LAFF), Egypt

Maghrebian Film Festival of Oujda, Morocco

Kolkata International Film Festival, India

Best Script Award and Best Actress Award at the Maghrebian Film Festival of Oujda, Morocco

Reviews

Walid Aboul Seoud - Al Shorouk (Arabic)

Quotes

“Despite the fact that “Thala My Love” documents a historical phase based on real events, its director didn’t use any real footage, but filmed everything instead; he only evoked an important phase in history into the film, and brought back its spirit through his own camera and vision.” Walid Aboul Seoud - Al Shorouk (Arabic)