As Tunisia’s biggest annual film festival, the Carthage Cinema Days (JCC) kicked off on Sunday, October 30, the traditionally desperate search for tickets began. But one group of people received their own private film screening: about 150 prisoners from the Oudhna Civil Prison, including 30 female prisoners who were brought in from the Manouba Women’s Prison facility.
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Cinéma Amilcar: movies and resistance
In a political context where cultural expression is stifled as security measures are intensified, going out to see a movie becomes an act of resistance.