Arab Blues

'Un Divan à Tunis', 2019

After years abroad in Paris, Selma returns to Tunis with the dream of opening up her own psychotherapy practice.

After years abroad in Paris, Selma returns to Tunis with the dream of opening up her own psychotherapy practice.

Director

Manele Labidi

Runtime

88 minutes

Type

Feature

Genre

Comedy

Keywords

female director, psychotherapy, breaking taboos, french tunsian writer, arabic

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Arab Blues

Manele Labidi, 2019

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2.35 : 1

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After years abroad in Paris, Selma returns to Tunis with the dream of opening up her own psychotherapy practice.

After 10 years of living in Paris, Selma (Golshifteh Farahani) has returned to Tunis. Back home, her younger cousin can't figure out why she'd leave the French capital, her aunt is overbearing, and her uncle is only giving her a matter of weeks to crash in the apartment above their house. Selma, nonetheless, is steadfast in her resolve: she wants to open up a psychotherapy practice. So begins the first feature directed and written by Manele Labidi, an incisive comedy about coming home, breaking taboos, and building community. As Selma tries to settle in, she's faced with increasing complications that she couldn't have predicted. There isn't just the matter of finding interested psychotherapy patients in a locale that's not keen on the talking cure, but she also needs to navigate a confusing bureaucratic circus in order to get the right papers to run her practice. On top of all that, a strapping cop, Naim (Majd Mastoura), is keeping a close eye on her every move.

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After years abroad in Paris, Selma returns to Tunis with the dream of opening up her own psychotherapy practice.

Synopsis

After 10 years of living in Paris, Selma (Golshifteh Farahani) has returned to Tunis. Back home, her younger cousin can't figure out why she'd leave the French capital, her aunt is overbearing, and her uncle is only giving her a matter of weeks to crash in the apartment above their house. Selma, nonetheless, is steadfast in her resolve: she wants to open up a psychotherapy practice. So begins the first feature directed and written by Manele Labidi, an incisive comedy about coming home, breaking taboos, and building community. As Selma tries to settle in, she's faced with increasing complications that she couldn't have predicted. There isn't just the matter of finding interested psychotherapy patients in a locale that's not keen on the talking cure, but she also needs to navigate a confusing bureaucratic circus in order to get the right papers to run her practice. On top of all that, a strapping cop, Naim (Majd Mastoura), is keeping a close eye on her every move.

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Cast & crew

Cast

Golshifteh Farahani

Actor/Actress

Majd Mastoura

Actor/Actress

Aïsha Ben Miled

Actress

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Director

Manele Labidi

Screenwriter

Maud Ameline

Screenwriter

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