Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema.
2011: Director Diane Sara Bouzgarrou is diagnosed bipolar while experiencing an intense manic-depressive episode as the revolution bursts in Tunisia, her father’s country. 5 years later, having lost almost every memory of this moment, Bouzgarrou goes through hours of footage she shot back then.
The debut feature from director Diane-Sara Bouzgarrou is an ethereal film merging home video and reportage, which gracefully reflects on the bond between the brutality of real-life events and the inner turmoil of the self. Few films have portrayed memory and its complex essence as vividly on screen