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Aicha, a Tunisian mother gifted with prophetic dreams, lives in the isolated north of Tunisia with her husband Brahim and young son Adam. The family lives in anguish after the departure of the eldest sons Mehdi and Amine to the violent embrace of war. Months later, Mehdi unexpectedly returns home with a pregnant wife in tow. Mehdi's arrival triggers old wounds and a darkness that threatens to consume the entire village.
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[Berlinale '24] The story takes the main elements of the Oscar-nominated short film "Brotherhood" (2018), focused on the return of a son who embraced Islamic extremism, but from his father's point of view, now adopting the feminine gaze. The film asks interesting questions but never addresses the answers, staying on the border between different genres that turns Aïcha's experience into a kind of sensory journey of the subconscious, evoking her fears and her uncertainties. But the aestheticism envelops the story in a visual calligraphy that ends up burying narrative understanding.