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International Competition

BEHIND THE MOUNTAINS
OURA EL JBEL

• Director: Mohamed Ben Attia
• TUNISIA, BELGIUM, FRANCE, ITALY, SAUDI ARABIA, QATAR / 2023 / DCP / Colour / 98’ / Arabic; Turkish, English s.t.

• Screenplay: Mohamed Ben Attia
• Director of Photography: Frédéric Noirhomme
• Editing: Lenka Fillnerova
• Music: Olivier Marguerit
• Cast: Majd Mastoura, Walid Bouchhioua, Samer Bisharat, Selma Zeghidi, Helmi Dridi, Wissem Belgharek
• Producer: Dora Bouchoucha, Lina Chaabane
• Production Co.: Nomadis Images
• World Sales: Luxbox

After spending four years in jail for vandalising his place of work due to a mental breakdown, Rafik has only one plan: take his son to the mountains and show him his incredible and amazing discovery. Inspired by the image of a man flying off a cliff, Tunisian director Mohamed Ben Attia (Weldi / Dear Son, Inhebek Hedi / Hedi) who visited the Festival in 2019, describes his latest film imbued with magical realism as ‘the story of a man who violently breaks free from his banal environment, subtracting himself from society with its principles, codes, and institutions. I wanted to show a man capable of widening the spectrum of possible in a country which has become schizophrenic, a world that has become absurd.’ Co-produced by Jean-Pierre et Luc Dardenne, Behind the Mountains had its world premiere at the Orizzonti Section of the Venice International Film Festival.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.