More than four years after the start of what was dubbed the 'jasmine revolution', Tunisia seems to have found a path to democratic normality, even if, as recent events have highlighted, it is not without its share of upheavals. The adoption of a new constitution, the experience of the Islamist Ennahdha government and the recent election victory of the secular Nida'a Tunis party - which means alternation in power - attest to this.
In this renewed, apparently stable socio-political context, changes are taking place in the cultural field, and the world of film is no exception. The growing presence of women in filmmaking and the rise of the documentary genre are proof of this.
As we commented in our previous film series, 'Militant Women', dedicated to Arab women directors, the opportunity offered by the changes generated by the pro-democratic revolts has been seized by women filmmakers to establish themselves in an activity in which they had always been present. In the specific case of Tunisia, it is with the turn of the millennium in particular that we see a greater push from directors such as Nadia El Fani and Moufida Tlatli, among others, references of the generation that is now emerging with democracy.
A democracy that also facilitates the circumstances for the making of documentaries, a genre that was impossible during the dictatorship, given its usual condition as a tool for reflecting, denouncing and criticising reality.
With this cycle we aim to offer a varied representation of the cinematography produced in post-revolutionary Tunisia by the filmmakers Hinde Boujemaa and Kaouther Ben Hania, whose documentaries will accompany a feature film by Raja Amari, 'Tunisian Spring', which will be screened for the first time in Spain and which has been translated and subtitled into Spanish by the Fundación Tres Culturas.
Tuesday, 7 April
Ya man aach (It was better tomorrow).
Directed by Hinde Boujemaa (Tunisia, 2012, 74 minutes).
Cycle Tunisia. Films for after a revolution.
Synopsis. Aida, a Tunisian woman living in destitution, stars in this documentary that shows how, despite the fall of Ben Ali's regime, almost everything remains the same. In the search for shelter and food for her children in the midst of a revolution and then in the transition, her journey shows the suffering of some strata of the Tunisian people despite the overthrow of the dictatorship and the hoped-for democracy.
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