Machtat

Fatma and her two daughters, Najah and Waffa, are “machtat”, wedding musicians in Mahdia, a small city in Tunisia. The sisters follow opposite paths: while Najah, divorced, try to remarry to escape the authority of her brothers, Waffa wishes to divorce her violent husband. And Fatma navigates between the two, praying that things will go better one day.

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Feature

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Documentary

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Sonia Ben Slama is a Tunisian-French documentary filmmaker. She grew up in Paris where she studied Art and Cinema at University Paris 3-Sorbonne-Nouvelle. In 2015, she directed her first feature documentary “Maktoub”, produced by Les films de la Caravane. She’s currently working on two features documentaries, “316 North Main Street” and “Machtat”.

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After filmmaking studies in Beirut, Tania El Khoury moved to Paris in 2002. She joined the well-established company Moby Dick Films, with which she worked until 2019. Since 2016, she has been producing independently, between France and Lebanon where she has founded Khamsin Films. In 2020, she founded the Parisian production company, Les Films de l’Altaï.

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