Railway Men
Spring Grants 2017
Erige Sehiri / Feature Documentary / Tunisia, France, Qatar / 2017 / 75 min / Original Language: Arabic / Interests: Road Trip, Social Issues, Creative Documentary
Synopsis
Conducting the trains of Line #1, the country’s deadliest, five employees struggle with the darker side of Tunisia’s national railway company in the aftermath of the Revolution. Workers rack up many hours of overtime, the worn-out locomotives are unreliable, and the safety of both the railway workers and passengers is put at risk. But how can these individuals confront these issues when they have neither the opportunity nor the freedom to speak up?
Credits
- Director
- Erige Sehiri
- Screenwriter
- Erige Sehiri
- Producer
- Palmyre Badinier, Dora Bouchoucha, Co-Producer Nomadis Images
- Production Company
- Les Films de Zayna
About the Director
Erige Sehiri is a director and producer, based between France and Tunisia. After ‘The Facebook of My Father’ (2012), she directed her first feature-length documentary in 2018. Presented at Visions du Réel and IDFA, ‘La Voie Normale’ was released in Tunisian
theatres, where it remained for six weeks. Since 2011, she has also been active in media education for young people. She is the co-founder of the media group Inkyfada, member of the ICIJ, and head of Henia Production, through which she produces films.
Contacts
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Main Contact
Palmyre Badinier
- Company:
- Akka Films
- Phone:
- (0) 22 345 11 70
- Email:
- palmyre@zayna.fr / p.badinier@akkafilms.ch