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Machtat

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Fatma and her two daughters, Najeh and Waffeh, are "machtat", wedding musicians in Mahdia, a small city in Tunisia. The sisters follow opposite paths: while Najeh, divorced, tries to remarry to escape the authority of her brothers, Waffeh wishes to divorce her violent husband. And Fatma navigates between the two, praying that things will go better one day.

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Synopsis Fatma and her two daughters, Najeh and Waffeh, are "machtat", wedding musicians in Mahdia, a small city in Tunisia. The sisters follow opposite paths: while Najeh, divorced, tries to remarry to escape the authority of her brothers, Waffeh wishes to divorce her violent husband. And Fatma navigates between the two, praying that things will go better one day.
Director
Sonia Ben Slama
Producer
Cécile Lestrade
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
Arabic
Runtime
1h 22m