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We host a series of major research projects, funded by organisations including the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Leverhulme Trust, and the British Academy.

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Palestine in the popular imagination

Investigating how Palestine has been imagined in the public sphere in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

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This project thinks about the popular understanding of the work of DNA and, more particularly, how we might understand, represent, and visualise it.

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Bent Familia

FILM000014
Aida and Amina are old friends who, now in their early thirties, have re-connected after a long separation. Their reunion provides an opportunity to examine their lives and relationships. Amina appears to be happily married while Aida has chosen divorce but still takes in male callers. Their friendship with the ambitious Fatiha, an Algerian refugee living in Tunisia, sparks a desire in the two friends to work at overcoming their respective societal limitations. While Fatiha is on the threshold of a new life in Europe, Amina searches for the strength to stand up to her overbearing husband. Relying on each others’ strength and energy, the three friends take charge of their lives in this moving examination of the power and beauty of friendship between women.
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1997
105 mins
Arab Film Distribution
Genre
Drama
Language
Arabic
Country of Origin
Tunisia
Permalink
http://arabcinemadb.alc.manchester.ac.uk/Public/Film/Show/FILM000014
Venice Film Festival 1997: Won: Elvira Notari Prize and Won: OCIC Award - Honorable Mention.

Namur International Festival of French-Speaking Film 1997: Won
Golden Bayard.

Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival 1997: Won
Audience Award and Won: Golden Antigone
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People with a connection to this film
Amel Hedhili (Actor)Leila Nassim (Actor)Kamel Touati (Actor)Raouf Ben Amor (Actor)Hassiba Rochdi (Actor)Wafa Salem (Actor)Nadia Kaci (Actor)Nouri Bouzid (Director)Ahmed Baha Eddine Attia (Producer)
Video Clips
Bent Familia
Publications related to this film
K Martial Frindethie (2009) Lieve Spaas (2000) Martin Stollery (2013)
Copies in the collection
DVD ARA/FIL/0095 Subtitled: English
Record from the Contemporary Arab Cinema Database
Last modified on 22/12/2013 16:12