STREAMS
Mehdi Hmili
YOL FILM HOUSE (Tunisia), MPM FILM (France), TARANTULA (Luxembourg), CLANDESTINO PRODUCTION (Tunisia)
Amel is released from prison after an adulterous affair. In the lower depths of Tunis, she is seeking for her missing son. During her journey, Amel faces a tunisian society in full collapse.
AMEL works in a factory in Tunis. She lives with her alcoholic husband TAHAR, a former football player, and their only son MOUMEN, a teenage football goalkeeper. To convince the boss of the factory to provide her with connections for her son, Amel betrays her fellow workers, who have been organizing a strike. Amel meets the connection: IMED, a wealthy businessman, who takes advantage of the situation and abuses Amel. But the police catch them. Amel is imprisoned, accused of adultery and prostitution. Moumen is destroyed by the scandal. He stops his football career and finds refuge at his late brother's friend, DJO, a young homosexual dealer. Moumen starts taking drugs and becomes a prostitute. After her release from prison, Amel searches for him in the lower and violent streets of Tunis. During this long quest for her missing son, Amel has to face the falling Tunisian society.
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MEHDI HMILI is a filmmaker, screenwriter and producer. He was born in Tunis and graduated from the Paris Film School. While in France, he directed his trilogy in black-and-white about love and exile: X-MOMENT (2009), LI-LA (2011) and THE NIGHT OF BADR (2012). His first feature-length film, THALA MON AMOUR (2016), was selected in worldwide film festivals and won several prizes among them the Best Original Screenplay and the Best Actress Award at Oujda film Festival. His last documentary film FOULEDH selected in La Fabrique Cinema at the 72th Cannes Film Festival won several development prizes such as the El Gouna Film Festival award. A former football player, Hmili recounts his own story in STREAMS, his second feature-length film currently in post-production. Mehdi Hmili is a Torino Film Lab Alumni. He lives and works between Paris and Tunis.
Director’s statement
STREAMS is the interweaving of three themes that have always haunted me: family, guilt and love. Through them, I try to describe and translate into an economy of words and gestures, the complexity of the existence of a family. This film is also a way for me to return to my past as a young footballer in Tunis and to film these three worlds that I crossed with fury and noise: family, football and the street. The film is the uncompromising portrait of a society that can not get rid of the demons of the past. A society in full collapse. A few years after the Jasmine revolution, the economy is at its worst notably because of the collapse of the tourist sector following the terrorist attacks. The Tunisians are left to their own devices and everything seems to be in chaos. The context of this post-revolutionary society shows how much corruption has developed; violence has spread obscurantism and criminality have seized the minds of individuals.
Where are we at?
Total budget: 773.000,00 EUR
Financing in place: 723.000,00 EUR
Sales agent: none
Territories available: World
Looking for at CineLink?
We look forward being part of CineLink | Work in Progress to meet potential partners and to close our financing i.e. to find post-production funds, sales agents and distributors to ensure the presence of the film in the different territories, broadcasters and interest from festivals.
Production Company profile
YOL FILM HOUSE is an Tunisian film production company that develops and produces original and innovative films. Our vision is to tell original and moving stories that provide a refreshing challenge for an international audience. The company plays an active role in supporting Tunisian talents. From our upcoming projects, STREAMS, the second feature film of acclaimed young Tunisian filmmaker Mehdi Hmili.