Fiche Film
Cinéma/TV
COURT Métrage | 1997
Sabriya – Le carré de l’échiquier
Pays concerné : Tunisie
Support : 35 mm
Durée : 26 minutes
Genre : drame
Type : fiction
Français
Le Carré de l’échiquier est un café perdu dans un univers de sable. C’est aussi l’espace privilégié et immuable pour les deux amis et propriétaires, Saïd et Rajeh, qui vivent là au fil du jeu et du temps. Deux femmes viendront perturber malgré elles cette harmonie en représentant un enjeu bien plus important pour les deux hommes que le simple fait de gagner en suscitant des passions destructrices.
Collection Africa Dreaming.
Durée : 28’51 »
Genre : fiction CM
Thème : amour
Pays de production : Tunisie
Année : 1997
Réalisateur : Abderrahmane SISSAKO
Image : Youssef BEN YOUSSEF
Son : Faouzi THABET
Montage : Nadia BEN RACHID
Musique originale : Anouar BRAHEM, Ali FARKA TOURÉ, Ry COODER, Oumou SANGARÉ
Production : NOMADIS IMAGES (Dora Bouchoucha) / Arte France
English
Sabriya
In the desert landscape of southern Tunisia, two chess-crazy brothers run a café. While on a train, one of them meets the beautiful Sarah, and their great passion drives the brothers apart.
This film explores the impact of the modern world on the traditional male society of the Maghreb. It is a film about men who prefer to live life as an abstract game and the free-spirited woman who changes everything. Said and Youssef have fulfilled a life-long dream by opening a « chess bar » in the middle of the desert. They sit around drinking palm wine, playing board games and composing love poetry to imaginary women; all this changes with the arrival of the sexually liberated and uninhibited Sarah.
A film by Abderrahmane Sissako
Tunisia, 1997, 26m., color. In Arabic with English subtitles
Collection Africa Dreaming.
Directed by Abderrahmane Sissako.
Produced by Nomadis Images (Dora Bouchoucha) & Arte France
This film explores the impact of the modern world on the traditional male society of the Maghreb. It is a film about men who prefer to live life as an abstract game and the free-spirited woman who changes everything. Said and Youssef have fulfilled a life-long dream by opening a « chess bar » in the middle of the desert. They sit around drinking palm wine, playing board games and composing love poetry to imaginary women; all this changes with the arrival of the sexually liberated and uninhibited Sarah.
A film by Abderrahmane Sissako
Tunisia, 1997, 26m., color. In Arabic with English subtitles
Collection Africa Dreaming.
Directed by Abderrahmane Sissako.
Produced by Nomadis Images (Dora Bouchoucha) & Arte France
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