Halfaouine: Boy of the Terraces
Toronto International Film Festival
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1h 39m
Directed by Férid Boughedir • Drama • 1990 • Tunisia • Arabic with English subtitles
Starring Selim Boughedir, Mustapha Adouani, Rabia Ben Abdallah
Set against the sensual backdrop of modern Tunisia, renowned Arab critic-turned-filmmaker Férid Boughedir's “Halfaouine: Boy of the Terraces” is a bittersweet portrait of a boy's sexual awakening. An inquisitive thirteen-year-old’s eyes are opened to his own sexual desires when he visits the local Turkish bathhouse with his mother. A sensitive, comical look at growing up under the codes of Islam.
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