Harka

Ali is a young Tunisian who dreams of a better life and ekes out a lonely existence selling contraband oil on the black market. When his father dies, he is forced to care for his two younger sisters who have been left to their own devices in a house from which they will soon be evicted. As he wrestles with the sudden weight of responsibility and the injustices he faces, anger and indignation stir within Ali – that of a generation still fighting to be heard more than a decade after the revolution…

Keywords

  • Cannes: Un Certain Regard
  • Cine-Short: 90 Minuten Kino
  • Festival de Cannes
  • Lëtzebuerger Filmpräis
  • Lëtzebuerger Filmpräis (home)
  • Made with Luxembourg

Actors

  • Adam Bessa
  • Ikbal Harbi
  • Najib Allagui
  • Salima Maatoug
  • Khaled Brahem

Director

  • Lotfy Nathan

Drama

1h 27min

-12

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Belgium
France
Germany
Luxembourg
Saudi Arabia
Tunisia
United Kingdom
United States of America
2022
Ali is a young Tunisian who dreams of a better life and ekes out a lonely existence selling contraband oil on the black market. When his father dies, he is forced to care for his two younger sisters who have been left to their own devices in a house from which they will soon be evicted. As he wrestles with the sudden weight of responsibility and the injustices he faces, anger and indignation stir within Ali – that of a generation still fighting to be heard more than a decade after the revolution…

Ali is a young Tunisian who dreams of a better life and ekes out a lonely existence selling contraband oil on the black market. When his father dies, he is forced to care for his two younger sisters who have been left to their own devices in a house from which they will soon be evicted. As he wrestles with the sudden weight of responsibility and the injustices he faces, anger and indignation stir within Ali – that of a generation still fighting to be heard more than a decade after the revolution…


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