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HARKA

• Director: Lotfy Nathan
• FRANCE, LUXEMBOURG, TUNISIA, BELGIUM / 2022 / DCP / Colour / 90’ / Arabic; Turkish, English s.t.

• Screenplay: Lotfy Nathan
• Director of Photography: Maximilian Pittner
• Editing: Sophie Corra, Thomas Niles
• Music: Eli Keszler
• Cast: Adam Bessa, Najib Allagui, Salima Maatoug, Ikbal Harbi, Khaled Brahmi
• Producer: Julie Viez, Alex Hugues, Riccardo Maddalosso, Eugene Kotlyarenko, Lotfy Nathan, Tariq Merhab, Nicole Romano, Maurice Fadida
• Production Co.: Cinenovo, Beachside, Anonymous Content, Kodiak Pictures
• World Sales: Film Constellation

2022 Cannes Best Performance (Adam Bessa) – Un Certain Regard

Harka centres on the story of Ali, a young Tunisian who dreams of a better life, making a precarious living selling contraband gas. Forced to take charge of his two younger sisters after their father’s sudden death, and facing impending eviction, Ali will have to make a decision from which there is no turning back. What ensues is a fight for dignity, the voice of a generation trying to be heard. This thought-provoking and deeply moving film was written and directed by Egyptian-American documentary filmmaker Lotfy Nathan, who was inspired by a close study of Mohamed Bouazizi, the young man whose death sparked the Jasmine Revolution and subsequently the Arab Spring. Employing a cinematography and settings similar to Sergio Leone’s spaghetti western films, Harka is the fiction feature debut of Lotfy Nathan.

* This film is screened with the generous support of the Embassy of Luxembourg. 

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.