Harka

2022

1 hr. 27 min.

Drama

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94%

16 Reviews

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Dreaming of a better life, Ali makes a precarious living selling contraband gas on the streets of Tunisia. Forced to take charge of his two younger sisters after their father's sudden death, and facing impending eviction, Ali will have to make a decision from which there is no turning back. What ensues is a fight for dignity, the voice of a generation trying to be heard.

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Lotfy Nathan

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Adam Bessa

Ali

Salima Maatoug

Alyssa

Ikbal Harbi

Sarra

Najib Allagui

Omar

Khaled Brahem

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Wendy Ide

Observer (UK)

While the symbolism can land a little heavily at times, Bessa’s fiercely committed performance and the palpable anger in the storytelling are the picture’s driving force.

Rated: 4/5

May 8, 2023

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Hanna Flint

Empire Magazine

Lotfy Nathan’s debut is a grounded, sensitive portrait of a country still reeling from dysfunction. The script doesn’t penetrate as much as Adam Bessa’s searingly intense performance, which gives this social drama impressive emotional heft.

Rated: 3/5

May 5, 2023

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Leslie Felperin

Financial Times

Lotfy Nathan lays on the suffering thickly, and too often the film plays like poverty porn, the kind designed to prey on liberal viewers’ sense of guilt. But French-Italian-Tunisian star Bessa gives a raw, strong performance...

Rated: 3/5

May 4, 2023

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David Parkinson

Radio Times

Nathan's study in forlorn survival is both revealing and wrenching, made all the more punishing and poignant by Maximilian Pittner's unflinching photography, Salima Maatoug's personal narration and Eli Keszler's emotive score.

Rated: 4/5

Jun 1, 2023

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Rich Cline

Shadows on the Wall

Along with beautiful wide-screen cinematography by Maximilian Pittner, the film features a riveting performance from Adam Bessa that's unnervingly easy to identify with.

Rated: 4/5

May 9, 2023

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Hugh Barnes

The Arts Desk

In the hands of a more visceral director, someone like Ken Loach perhaps, this slow demolition of an ordinary person... might have felt less didactic and exploitative. Unfortunately, Nathan’s script lays it on a bit thick with the doom and despair.

Rated: 3/5

May 8, 2023

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Synopsis

Dreaming of a better life, Ali makes a precarious living selling contraband gas on the streets of Tunisia. Forced to take charge of his two younger sisters after their father's sudden death, and facing impending eviction, Ali will have to make a decision from which there is no turning back. What ensues is a fight for dignity, the voice of a generation trying to be heard.

Director: Lotfy Nathan
Executive Producer: Michael B. Clark, Jan McAdoo, Alex Turtletaub, Fabien Westerhoff
Screenwriter: Lotfy Nathan
Production Co: Kodiak Pictures, Tarantula Luxembourg, Cinétéléfilms, Beachside Films, Anonymous Content, Spacemaker Productions, Cinenovo Films, Detailfilm, Wrong Men
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Arabic