A group of teenagers spend their summer working in the fig harvest in rural northwest Tunisia. Melek and her friends work in the orchards during the summer to pay for their studies, prepare for their weddings or help their families.
This is sensitive, eloquent filmmaking.| Read in full: Under the Fig Trees film review We Love Cinema
Largely improvised, Erige Sehiri’s film packs argument, gossip, romance and social criticism into a busy day of fruit picking.The Guardian
Fig pickers flirt, conspire and exchange snatches of gossip while toiling in the gorgeous Tunisian sunlight in Erige Sehiri’s slow-burning feature debut.Sight and Sound
Sehiri’s intimate focus, especially in the film’s closing sequence, allows the film to bloom into a warm and tender embrace of the underlying sisterhood and camaraderie between a coterie of young women that refuse to be seen as a monolith.Little White Lies
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From classics to cult favourites, our team highlight some of the best one-off screenings and re-releases showing this week in the capital
From classics to cult favourites, our team highlight some of the best one-off screenings and re-releases showing this week in the capital
From classics to cult favourites, our team highlight some of the best one-off screenings and re-releases showing this week in the capital
