The Silences of the Palace

25 January, 2020 - 19:00
CINEMATEK, Brussels

Samt el qusur (The Silences of the Palace)

Moufida Tlatli
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FR, TN
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1994
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colour
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116'

A young wedding singer, Alia, returns to the palace where she was raised “downstairs,” and her childhood memories return, too; including witnessing her mother Khedija’s sexual assault. Looking back to the colonial era, Tlatli’s sensuous and startling film excoriates the continuing power of the patriarchy. When will women’s liberation come?