UNDER THE FIG TREES

Sous les figues

Quinzaine 2022 | Feature film | 92 min

World premiere

Among the trees, young women and men working the summer harvest develop new feelings, flirt, try to understand each other, find – and flee – deeper connections.

Director

Erige SEHIRI

Erige Sehiri is a French-Tunisian director and producer. With her own production company, Henia, she develops Tunisian author driven documentaries distinguished at Visions du Réel, IDFA, Cinémed... In 2018, her breakout feature documentary, Railway Men, remained six weeks in Tunisian theaters. In 2021, she wrote, directed and produced her first fiction feature, Under the Fig Trees, which won several post-production awards at the Venice International Film Festival - Final Cut in Venice.

Artistic & technical sheet

With

Ameni FDHILI (Sana), Fide FDHILI (Fidé), Feten FDHILI (Melek), Samar SIFI (Mariem), Leila OHEBI (Leila), Hneya BEN ELHEDI SBAHI (Hneya), Gaith MENDASSI (Ghaith), Abdelhak MRABTI (Abdou), Fedi BEN ACHOUR (Saber), Firas AMRI (Firas)

Screenplay
Erige Sehiri, Ghalya Lacroix, Peggy Hamann

Photography
Frida Marzouk

Sound
Aymen Laabidi

Editing
Ghalya LACROIX, Hafedh LAARIDHI, Malek KAMMOUN

Music
Amine Bouhafa

Production design
Erige Sehiri

Majority Production
MANEKI FILMS
6 rue de Braque
75003 Paris - France
info@maneki-films.com
+33 1 43 55 07 94

HENIA PRODUCTION
- Tunisia
heniaproduction@gmail.com

Coproduction
AKKA FILMS
IN GOOD COMPANY

Foreign sales
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Distribution (France)
Jour2Fête
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