Fri 22nd Feb 6.15pm - Ciné lumière
Sat 1st March 2.30pm - Cambridge Picturehouse

Tunisia-Switzerland 1982-88. With Fatma Khémiri, Mouna Noureddine, Basma Tajin. 90 min. 12A

Sabra attempts to escape the restrictions of traditional family life in a poor industrial town in Southern Tunisia. She loves her nation and her culture but finds them suffocating. Néjia Ben Mabrouk explores this contradiction in her intelligent debut in which every angle, every camera move carries rigour and weight. Mixing present and past, the film features flashbacks to Sabra's childhood when, aged ten, she already rejects her culture's paternal hierarchy.

Winner, Caligari Film Prize, Berlin Film Festival 1989