Fatma

Produced in 1996

Fatma

Film Information

Festival Edition 2001 - Edition 5
Section General
Director Khaled Ghorbal
Country Tunisia
Duration 124 min
Language Arabic
Category Arab Feature Films 2001
Producer Francine Jean-Baptiste
Screenplay Khaled Ghorbal
Cast Awatef Jendoubi, Bagdad Aoum
Genre Drama

Synopsis

Fatma is 17 when one night, her cousin Taher, who is staying with her for a while, rapes her. She is left devastated and she tells nobody. Fatma eventually studies for a new life in Tunisia. Far from her family and the memory of her pain, she falls in love with Mourad. But soon she breaks up with him, driven by her father to return to a rural village to work as a school teacher. There she meets Aziz, a young doctor. From this moment on, she will do anything to keep him.