Fatwa (+ short film: Nefta Football Club)
The story of a father who returns to Tunisia to bury his son who supposedly died in a motorcycle accident.
Brahim Nadhour flies from his hometown Paris to Tunisia for a sad reason: he has come to bury his son Marouane. Against the will of his ex-wife Loubna he decides to involve the mosque in the ceremony. He cannot help but notice how much the character of the religious community has changed in the meantime; he is all the more surprised to find out that Marouane, who had a secular upbringing, had become a regular attender at the mosque before his death. Realizing how little he knows about his son, Brahim starts to investigate. A series of dark discoveries turn the film into an unembellished but blood-curdling detective.
The screening of Fatwa will be preceded by the short film Nefta Football Club (Yves Piat, France, Tunisia 2018, 17 min.): In the rare moments that they are not playing soccer, brothers Abdallah and Mohammed race their moped over the hills surrounding Nefta. One day they come across a wandering donkey, strangely wearing headphones on his ears. What’s even more remarkable is the load he carries on his back.