Marie & Jolie
Spring Grants 2024 - Production Stage
Erige Sehiri / Feature Narrative / France, Tunisia, Qatar / 100 min / Original Language: Arabic, French / Interests: Comedy, Drama
Synopsis
Marie, Naney and Jolie live under the same roof in Tunis. The large, old house they inhabit conceals an evangelical church. After taking in Kenza, a little girl who survived a shipwreck, the three women each begin to question their place in this blended family and in a country in crisis.
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, placing workers with invisible destinies at the heart of her films. After her first short film, 'My Father's Facebook,' 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' (54th Directors' Fortnight, Cannes 2022), which was selected to represent Tunisia at the 2023 Oscars. The film was screened at festivals worldwide and released in some twenty countries. 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 co-founder of the Rawiyat-Sisters in Film collective. Sehiri ensures to raise awareness of ecological productions and won the Jury Prize for Best Ecological Production 2022 for her first feature-length film.
Contacts
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Main Contact
Didar Domehri
- Company:
- Maneki Films
- Phone:
- +33 1 43 55 07 94
- Email:
- didar@maneki-films.com
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Main Contact
Erige Sehiri
- Company:
- Henia Production
- Email:
- heniaproduction@gmail.com