BISERTA storia a spirale | sound design & soundtrack | 2018

“Biserta – Tunisia. The last city of Africa, the closest to Italy. Four characters, both accomplices and victims of a story that returns under the shadow of violence.”

SYNOPSIS:
Biserta – Tunisia. A port where African soil plunges sharply into the Mediterranean. The northernmost city of Africa, only 250 km from Italy. A fertile, rich land, a strategic port throughout centuries. Biserta, a city of barracks, naval bases, and prisons; Biserta, the “Petit Paris” of French colonizers; a city taken hostage since 2011 by groups of radical Islamists, Salafists, and Takfirists.

Biserta is Samar, a young girl training for her next boxing match, training to leave. It is Mohamed, a writer who has spent half his life in prison. It is Khaled, a Shiite artisan and political dissident, preparing for action. It is Dhia, with his cinema and his revolution. All are both accomplices and victims of a story that returns under the shadow of violence.

The city weaves the narrative, itself both accomplice and victim, sweet and ruthless. Biserta is “the city ahead,” a perspective close to us yet distant, touching upon issues that confront us as individuals before even as a society: fear, fanaticism, violence, and the desire for change.

SELECTIONS:

2018: Official Selection at the PriMed Festival – International Documentary and Mediterranean Reporting Prize.

2016: Selected for the Visioni Incontra Industry Section at the Visioni dal Mondo, Immagini della Realtà Festival.