Who Do I Belong To

Who Do I Belong To (2024)

ماء العين

Aicha, a Tunisian mother gifted with prophetic dreams, lives in the isolated north of Tunisia with her husband Brahim and young son Adam. The family lives in anguish after the departure of the eldest sons Mehdi and Amine to the violent embrace of war. Months later, Mehdi unexpectedly returns home with a pregnant wife in tow. Mehdi's arrival triggers old wounds and a darkness that threatens to consume the entire village.

Date of release
2024-11-01
TMDB
7.4 / 10 (5)
Runtime
1h 57m
Genres
Drama
Director
Meryam Joobeur

Casting

Interesting facts

Who Do I Belong To is a drama film, directed by Meryam Joobeur and released in 2024. The film stars Salha Nasraoui as Aïcha, a woman in Tunisia whose son returns from fighting in Syria with a mysterious woman, concurrently with a slate of strange disappearances in the village.

Production

The film is an expansion on the themes of Joobeur's 2018 short film Brotherhood (Ikhwène), but features some key story differences, including the gender of the central character. It went into development in 2021, with the working title Motherhood. Joobeur participated in the Sundance Screenwriters' Lab at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, where she was awarded the $10,000 Sundance Institute/NHK Award toward the film's production.

Shooting began in 2022 in Tunisia. In December 2023, the film won a €30,000 post-production grant in the Atlas Workshops program at the Marrakech International Film Festival.

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