Spanish premiere
The road, the house, the key, the animals, Bamssi. Images as urgent as an Instagram story create a dialogue within the family across the sea: Mourad and Fairuz, Tunisia and abroad. Time passes both slowly and quickly.
Can anyone paint a picture of an entire world through the simple act of filming the animals that share a home with them? Dogs, cats, sheep and chickens inhabit the world of the young Tunisian filmmaker Mourad Ben Amor, who films his walking and life companions with tenderness and eloquence.
The creative relationship between Belgian filmmaker Fairuz Ghammam and the determination of her younger cousin, Mourad, who wrote her a letter aged just 16 expressing his wish to work in cinema like her, are the starting point for this film. In their dialogue separated by the distance created by borders, Ghammam encourages Ben Amor to observe and describe the details of his everyday universe.
Among the mundane and the affectionate, the observing eyes of this filmmaker offer a critical voice that stealthily pervades the material he has filmed: we find it in every caress of his dog Bamssi, in the birth of a litter by his cat Saïda, on the road, among the olive trees, towards the sea. From that goodness stems the political gesture, an anchor in the world. Dreams and conscience.
Anna Brufau