Year of production : 2021 Format : Feature Running time : 96 (in minutes)
Nada is a young woman leading a double life. During the daytime she's quiet and reserved, but after dark she dives into the nightlife of Tunis and picks up men. First, she lets them tell their stories - as she doesn't speak, she acts as a kind of confidante - then beats the hell out of them. When a new colleague, Noura, arrives at her workplace and Nada finds a mythical knife at the home of one of her victims, events are unleashed over which Nada has less and less control.
BLACK MEDUSA is not only a portrait of an angry young woman in post-revolutionary Tunisia. The directors also sketch a portrait of Tunis: a city that combines cold, faceless office buildings with exuberant night life. Above all, they offer us a unique, innovative view of contemporary Tunisia. Using Nada's double life of monotony and violence as a metaphor, the film explores the more underlying concerns and sorrows of a generation.
During the nine nights in this story, the makers switch genres with ease: from a film noir featuring a mysterious femme fatale to an Italian giallo with a serial killer on the prowl, to even a sprinkling of fantasy. The striking Black Medusa consciously breaks with the stylistic elements usual in North African cinema in the same way as Nada breaks the rules of society in order to liberate herself.
CAST Rym HAYOUNI Aymen BEN HMIDA Aymen MEJRI Karim RMADI Ala Eddine SLIM Mehdi HAJRI Callum Francis HUGH Kadhem HARRAZI Sarah Alina GROSZ Sadry BEN MANSOUR Slim HSAYNI Belhassan HANDOUS
Associate producers OMAR BEN ALI (S.V.P.) FREDERIC ZEIMET (SIX LETTERS) & MOHAMED AZIZ BEN MUSTAPHA
Direction assistant preproduction NASREDDINE BEN MAATI
Intern direction assistant EYA HIDRI
Back-up direction assistant YASSINE ELMEMMI ALOUINI
Knife design and creation LASSAAD BEN SGHAIER
Pendant design and creation EMNA BELGACEM (EKCCI)
Scrolling video design and creation MYRIAM AROUS
Credits and graphic design YACINE BLAIECH (MOGLI STUDIO)
Assistant editor YASSINE TBESSI
Assistant sound editor NOUR CHERIF
Foley recordist AIDA BDIOUI
Back-up hair & make-up CIRINE SAIDI
Truck FATHI AYEB
Driver FAOUZI NHILI
Catering IBTICEM BEN TAYEB
Additional music JAWHAR NVMB STUPOR THE ALEXANDER FURREUR COMMITTEE TZARA MILTZAH YALLAH BYE
Stunts FATMA BEN HMIDA ATEF MAATALLAH CHERIFA BARNAT AISHA ZAIED INTISSAR BELAID MORITZ HAGEDORN TAHER BEN ALI CAMILLE LEVY SAFWEN BAYA ASHREF BEJAOUI MEHDI MZEH AZZOUZ REBBAI NOUR BEN GHACHEM WASSIM BEN JEMAA ACHREF BEN CHAABANE
THANKS TO Yosser Saidane The Louati family The Chebbi family Chawki Knis & MadBox Ali Hassouna & Exit Productions Imed Marzouk & Propaganda Production Moncef Taleb, Amine Messadi & Inside Production Hatem & Slim Drissi & Museum Lab Ismail Bahri & his family Fares Ladjimi & Fatma Cherif Raed Labassi Nadya Zarrougi Hamza Bennour Omar Maaref, Yacine Zair & all the crew of the Wax Majdi Chabbar & all the crew of the Marengo Dali Samourai, Khaled Trabelsi & all the crew of the Rock n'rolla All the crew of Sidi Bou Saïd Hotel Pol Guillard Sahbi Kraiem Aroua Trudy Mariem Esseghir The Sousse Archaeological Museum & his direction The Feradi Maius archaeological site & his direction The El Menzah Olympic City & her direction The Gym Box & his direction Radhi Meddeb Azza Chaabouni Justin Pecheberty Ikbel Zalila Ahmed Blaiech & all the crew of BAAK studio Helmi, Issam & all the crew of the Red Square The Arabesques publishing company Art Ensemble Studio Nebil Mannai Hassen Saies Hela Soui Chahrazede Krichene Khalil Esseghir Fakhri El Ghezal Slim Dhib
PRODUCTION Utopia Films (Tunisia)
Arab region sales agent: MAD Solutions
FESTIVALS / AWARDS * World premiere: Tiger Competition /// International Film Festival Rotterdam - February, 5th, 2021 * CNCI Prize - Takmil /// Carthage Film Festival 2020 * Stadion Video Prize - Works In Progress /// Rome Med Film Festival 2020 * Works In Progress - Eastern Promises /// Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2020
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