Brotherhood

Canada Qatar Sweden Tunisia
2018
Fiction
25 min.

 

Director | Meryam Joobeur
Script | Meryam Joobeur
Director of photography | Vincent Gonneville
Editing | Anouk Deschênes
Sound | Théo Porcet, Jean-David Perron, Aymen Laabidi, Cult Nation
Composer | Peter Venne
Producers | Habib Attia, Sarra Ben-Hassen, Maria Gracia Turgeon, Meryam Joobeur, Annick Blanc
Production companies | Tunisia/Cinetelefilms, Canada/Midi la nuit

 

Mohamed is deeply shaken and suspicious when his estranged eldest son Malek returns home to rural Tunisia with a mysterious young wife in tow. The emotional complexities of a family reunion and past wounds lead to tragic consequences.

 

Bio:
Tunisian-American writer/director Meryam Joobeur is a graduate of Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema in Montréal. She is currently developing three feature films including the feature version of ‘Brotherhood’ and has participated in the Berlinale Talent Lab (2016) TIFF Talent Lab (2016) and the Rawi Screenwriter’s Lab (2016).

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