release date June 14 2022
BLACK MEDUSA Joins Cairo Cinema Days
Tunisian film BLACK MEDUSA, directed by Ismaël Chebbi, will screen at the 5th edition of Cairo Cinema Days on Monday, June 13 at 10:00 PM.
The film had a successful screening last Friday, June 10, at Cairo Cinema Days.
BLACK MEDUSA landed its world premiere at International Film Festival Rotterdam and screened at Carthage Film Festival; Arab Film Days, Norway; International Fantastic Film Festival, Porto Allegre and Moscow International Film Festival, Russia.
In today’s Tunis, 25 year old Nada is hearing impaired young woman who leads a double life: lonely and boring during the day, violent and extreme during the night. This highly ritualized life is going to shatter the day she falls in love with an old knife, while Nora, her colleague, falls in love with her. The film is inspired by the Medusa myth at the age of #MeToo movement.
Directed and edited by Ismael Chebbi who co-wrote the film with his brother Youssef Chebbi, BLACK MEDUSA stars Nour Hajri, Rym Hayouni, Aymen Ben Hmida and Aymen Mejri and is produced by Utopia films. MAD Solutions handles the film’s distribution across the Arab world.
Ismaël Chebbi is a multitalented filmmaker, visual artist and writer. He directed the feature documentary Babylon that won Grand Prix at the International Film Festival Marseille and the short narrative Leila’s Blues that premiered at the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, 2018. Also, he produced the feature narrative The last of us, which nabbed Lion of the Future at the Venice International Film Festival.
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