Four Daughters

Showings

Firehouse Cinema Fri, Feb 23 6:00 PM
Firehouse Cinema Sun, Feb 25 2:00 PM
Firehouse Cinema Wed, Feb 28 8:30 PM
Cast/Crew Info
Directed by:Kaouther Ben Hania
Produced by:Nadim Cheikhrouha, Habib Attia, Thanassis Karathanos, Martin Hampel
Film Info
Series:Oscar Nominated Feature Docs 2024
Runtime:107 min
Release Year:2023
Production Country:France, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia
Original Language:Arabic, French
General:$16
Members:$8
Series Link:https://firehousecinema.dctvny.org/oscars2024

Description

“Compelling, ambitious … a therapeutic exercise, and a commentary on the filmmaking process itself.” — Variety

 

One of the year's most acclaimed releases, this riveting documentary by Oscar®-nominated filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania (The Man Who Sold His Skin) uses an audacious formal conceit to tell the story of Olfa Hamrouni and her four daughters. Attempting to answer the question of how and why the Tunisian woman’s two eldest were radicalized, Ben Hania reveals a complex history. We watch as the family relives key events in their lives with help from professional actors standing in for the missing girls. Winner of the Best Documentary award at the Cannes Film Festival, Best Documentary Feature at the Gotham Awards, and Best Writing at the IDA Documentary Awards, Four Daughters is a compelling portrait of five women and a unique and ambitious work of nonfiction cinema that pushes against the conventional boundaries of the documentary form to explore the nature of memory, rebellion, and the ties that bind mothers and daughters.

 

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