Marie & Jolie
Spring Grants 2024 - Production Stage
Erige Sehiri / Feature Narrative / Tunisia, France, Qatar / 95 min / Original Language: Arabic, French / Interests: Drama
Synopsis
In Tunis, three Ivorian women from different generations—a pastor, a resourceful businesswoman, and a student—live together in a house that doubles as a church. The arrival of a little orphan girl forces them to confront their hidden wounds and reveals the fragility of their lives.
Credits
- Director
- Erige Sehiri
- Screenwriter
- Erige Sehiri, Anna Ciennick
- Producer
- Didar Domehri, Erige Sehiri
- Production Company
- Maneki Films, Henia Production
About the Director
Erige Sehiri is a French-Tunisian director and producer. A former journalist, she began her film career making documentaries. Particularly sensitive to the world of work, she places workers with invisible destinies at the heart of her films. After her first short film, 'My Father’s Facebook', co-produced by the ARTE channel, she made an acclaimed feature-length documentary, 'Railway Men' (2018), reflecting the daily struggle of railway workers. In 2022, she wrote, directed, and produced her first feature-length fiction film, 'Under the Fig Trees', which was selected for the 54th Directors' Fortnight at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival before being chosen to represent Tunisia at the 2023 Oscars. The film was screened at festivals worldwide and released in cinemas in more than twenty countries. Beyond filmmaking, Sehiri is active in civil society, co-founding the NGO Al KHATT to promote freedom of expression and media education among young people. She is also a co-founder of the Rawiyat-Sisters in Film collective.
Contacts
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Main Contact
Didar Domehri
- Company:
- Maneki Films
- Email:
- didar@maneki-films.com
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Main Contact
Erige Sehiri
- Company:
- Henia Production
- Email:
- heniaproduction@gmail.com