Ashkal

Spoken: Arabic, French / Subtitles: English 

In the gardens of Carthage in Tunisia, a new district where modern buildings and abandoned building sites and vacant wastelands are built side by side is in shock when the body of a security guard is found burnt to a crisp in the middle of a building site. Batal, a cop in his fifties, is in charge of the investigation, assisted by his young niece, Fatma, a thirty-year-old woman. The investigators start by questioning the workers of the neighboring building sites, but they are far from imagining what really awaits them in this case…

The film is being screened as part of Leuven Human Rights City. 

Ashkal is preceded by a short animation film: 
Akanda
(2022, Akram Kamya, Kizito Samuel Saviour, Uganda, 5 min.) Spoken: English

An experimental film about getting lost and fear.

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