Four daughters
2024
DVD
The riveting exploration of rebellion, memory, and sisterhood reconstructs the story of Olfa Hamrouni and her four daughters, unpacking a complex family history through intimate interviews and artful reenactments to examine how the Tunisian woman's two eldest were radicalized by Islamic extremists. Casting professional actresses as the missing daughters, along with acclaimed Egyptian-Tunisian actress Hend Sabri as Olfa, award-winning director Kaouther Ben Hania (The Man Who Sold His Skin) restages pivotal moments in the family's life. These scenes are interwoven with confessions and reflections from Olfa and her younger daughters, offering the women agency to tell their own stories and capturing moments of joy, loss, violence, and heartache. Winner of four prizes including L'Oeil d'Or (Best Documentary) when it screened in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, Four Daughters is a compelling portrait of five women and a unique and ambitious work of nonfiction cinema that explores the nature of memory, the weight of inherited trauma, and the ties that bind mothers and daughters.
Item Details
Description:
- 1 videodisc (107 minutes) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 inches
- polychrome
- digital
- optical
- surround
- Dolby Digital 5.1
- Dolby Digital 2.0
- wide screen
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
Target Audience Note:
- E.
- Canadian Home Video Rating: Not rated.
Other Title: 4 daughters
Notes:
- Originally released as a documentary film in 2023.
- Special features: Interview with director Kaouther Ben Hania; theatrical trailer.
- Title from container.
- Director of photography, Farouk Laaridh ; editing, Jean-Christophe Hym, Kaouther Ben Hania, Qutaiba Barhamji ; music, Amine Bouhafa.
- Olfa Hamrouni, Hend Sabri, Nour Karoui, Ichraq Matar, Eya Chikahoui.
- DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital 2.0.
- For private home use only.
- Audio tracks in Arabic, with optional subtitles in English.
Publisher or Distributor Number: K26502
Control Number: 3298971
UPC: 738329265021
Publisher: New York : Kino Lorber, [2024]Subjects:
- Bin Hanīyah, Kawthar -- Family.
- Families -- Tunisia.
- Female friendship.
- Islamic fundamentalism -- Tunisia.
- Mothers and daughters -- Tunisia.
- Muslim women -- Tunisia.
- Radicalization.
Genre:
- Autobiographical films.
- Documentary films.
- Feature films.
- Foreign films.
- Motion pictures, Arab.
- Nonfiction films.
- Personal narratives.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Other Authors:
- Bin Hanīyah, Kawthar, film director, screenwriter.
- Cheikhrouha, Nadim, film producer.
- Chikahoui, Eya, on-screen participant.
- Cinétéléfilms (Firm), production company.
- Hampel, Martin, 1985- film producer.
- Hamrouni, Olfa, on-screen participant.
- Karathanos, Thanassis, film producer.
- Kino Lorber, Inc., publisher.
- Matar, Ichrak, actor.
- Mittmann, Karin, actor.
- Ṣabrī, Hind, actor.
- Tanit Films, production company.
- Twenty Twenty Vision Filmproduktion, production company.
- ʻAṭīyah, Muḥammad Ḥabīb, film producer.