Ciao Habiba !

A film documentary by Sarah Benillouche

Les Productions du Golem, 2012

56 min, Color
in French and Arabic subtitled

contact@lesproductionsdugolem.com
www.lesproductionsdugolem.com

A few months after the Tunisian Revolution, a filmmaker comes back to her native country. She looks for a Tunisian diva, Habiba Messika, a woman too free, a singer, actress, burned by at the end of the 1930’s by one of her many lovers.

In order to embody her, she organizes a casting…

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