Who Do I Belong To

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Who Do I Belong To

2024

1h 58m

Drama

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Aicha lives in the isolated north of Tunisia with her husband and youngest son. The family lives in anguish after the departure of the eldest sons Mehdi and Amine to the violent embrace of war. When Mehdi unexpectedly returns home with a mysterious pregnant wife, a darkness emerges, threatening to consume the entire village. Aicha is caught between her maternal love and her search for the truth.

Namrata Joshi

The New Indian Express

Who Do I Belong To pivots on the mood and atmospherics. The eerie, haunting, surreal images drawn from Aicha’s prophetic nightmares and the extreme, sombre closeups of her actors’ freckled faces come together to assuredly construct the tragic reality.

Jul 17, 2024

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Robert Daniels

RogerEbert.com

"Who Do I Belong To” is also such a bracing and assured work, one given further texture through an immaculately evocative sound design, it allows for Aicha’s maternal fears and Medhi’s gnawing radicalism to make for a stirring debut by Joobeur.

Feb 25, 2024

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Jordan Mintzer

The Hollywood Reporter

Joobeur’s film, despite its serious subject matter and intense sense of craft, never fully convinces in its depiction of what radical Islam can do to a well-meaning family like Aïcha’s.

Feb 22, 2024

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Monica Reid

Far Out Magazine

This unusual first feature by Montreal-based director Meryam Joobeur is a fascinating production that defies standard categories.

Rated: 4.5/5

Jan 14, 2025

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Pat Mullen

That Shelf

Unintelligibly ambiguous.

Oct 31, 2024

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Alexa Dalby

Dog and Wolf

Who Do I Belong To includes many other threads, which makes it seem unfocused with a scattergun approach – though still searing, atmospheric (thanks to an overly insistent, portentous score by Peter Venne) and effective.

Rated: 3/5

Oct 21, 2024

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Synopsis

Aicha lives in the isolated north of Tunisia with her husband and youngest son. The family lives in anguish after the departure of the eldest sons Mehdi and Amine to the violent embrace of war. When Mehdi unexpectedly returns home with a mysterious pregnant wife, a darkness emerges, threatening to consume the entire village. Aicha is caught between her maternal love and her search for the truth.

Director: Meryam Joobeur
Producer: Nadim Cheikhrouha, Sarra Ben Hassen, Maria Gracia Turgeon, Annick Blanc, Meryam Joobeur
Screenwriter: Meryam Joobeur, Meryam Joobeur
Production Co: Tanit Films, Midi La Nuit, Instinct Blue
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Arabic
Runtime: 1h 58m