Type:
Feature Film
Director:
Ferid Boughedir
Year:
1990
Time:
98 minutes
Written by:
Férid Boughedir & Nouri Bouzid
Edited by:
Marie-Christine Rougerie & Moufida Tlatli
Language:
Arabic with English of Spanish subtitles
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Official Selection!
- Cannes Film Festival
"One of the most exquisitely told coming-of-age tales imaginable."
- Kevin Thomas, L.A. Times
Set against the sensual, exotic backdrop of modern Tunisia, renowned Arab critic-turned-filmmaker Ferid Boughedir's Halfaouine is a bittersweet portrait of a boy's sexual awakening.
Noura is an inquisitive thirteen-year-old whose eyes are opened to his own sexual desires when he visits the local Turkish bathhouse with his mother. A sensitive, comical look at the difficulty of growing up under the puritanical codes of Islam, Boughedir's film is also a rich, vibrant portrait of the Arab neighborhood of Halfaouine, with its array of colorful and eccentric citizenry from whom Noura learns the complicated, often hypocritical ways of adulthood.
DVD Special Features
Stills Gallery
Camera Arabe (1987, Arabic w/ English subtitles), Ferid Boughedir's feature-length documentary on the history of Arab cinema.
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