Mohamed is a retired factory worker. He lives alone in a nursing home. However, due to illness, he must now leave his room. He decides to return to Tunisia, a country he has not seen in a long time.
Acting
Farid Chopel's fragile, wordless final performance
Cinematography
Desert landscapes that swallow human longing
Director
Khaled Ghorbal
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Chopel was himself dying during filming; he passed months after release, making Mohamed's frailty unbearably authentic.
Ghorbal, himself Franco-Tunisian, based the nursing home on real French centers where Maghrebi elders face forced displacement.
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