'Streams' is a joint production between Yol Film House (Tunisia), Tarantula (Luxembourg), MPM Film (France), Clandestino Production (Tunisia) and Allam Film (USA).
Tunisian film Streams, directed by Mehdi Hmili, will have its world premiere at the Locarno Film Festival, Switzerland, where it will compete for six awards within the Filmmakers of the Present (Concorso Cineasti del presente) competition. The event will take place from August 4-14.
The competition is dedicated to emerging directors from all over the world and showcases their first and second films. It presents 15 world premieres of feature films and documentaries that compete for the following awards: Golden Leopard for Best Film, Special Jury Prize, Best Emerging Director, Swatch First Feature Award, Leopard for the Best Actor and Leopard for the Best Actress.
Written and directed by Mehdi Hmili, Streams stars Afef Ben Mahmoud, Iheb Bouyahia, Zaza, Sarah Hannachi and Slim Baccar and features music composed by Amine Bouhafa. MAD Solutions handles the film’s distribution across the Arab world.
Streams is a joint production between Yol Film House (Tunisia), Tarantula (Luxembourg), MPM Film (France), Clandestino Production (Tunisia) and Allam Film (USA). It was developed in a Canadian workshop (Grand Nord) and received the screenplay Prize of the Institut Français and the CineGouna post-production prize and grants from Tunisian National Center of Cinema, Film Fund Luxembourg and French National Center of Cinema.
The story revolves around Amel. She is released from prison after an adulterous affair. In the lower depths of Tunis, Amel is seeking her missing son Moumen. During her journey, Amel faces a Tunisian society in full collapse.
Mehdi Hmili is a Tunisian writer and filmmaker. He studied cinema in Tunisia before graduating from the Paris Film School. While in France, he directed his short trilogy about love and exile: X-Moment (2009), Li-La (2011) and The Night of Badr (2012). His first feature-length film, Thala Mon Amour (2016), was selected in worldwide film festivals like Torino Film Festival, Carthage Film Festival and won several prizes. His last production Fouledh was selected in La Fabrique Cinema at the 72nd Cannes Film Festival.
Every August, the town of Locarno, located in the heart of Europe, becomes the world capital of auteur cinema for the course of eleven days.
