Erige Sehiri’s narrative debut chronicles and animates the lives of a group of women Tunisian fig harvesters. By Lovia Gyarkye Arts & Culture Critic The camera is a shrewd interlocuter in Erige Sehiri ...
"You'd better not let him catch you." Film Movement has revealed an official US trailer for a Tunisian indie drama titled Under the Fig Trees, made by documentary filmmaker Erige Sehiri as her first ...
EXCLUSIVE: Tunisia has submitted Erige Sehiri’s bucolic coming-of-age tale Under the Fig Trees, about a group of teenagers working as fig pickers over the summer, as its entry for the Best ...
Sehiri has a documentary background, and cast non-professionals from her Kesra setting. The naturalistic, improvised performances seem effortlessly real, but this isn’t prosaic non-fiction. The play ...
The Spanish Civil War has been the backdrop for multiple great movies, many of which are steeped in metaphor as much as history: from Victor Erice’s 1973 arthouse classic “The Spirit of the Beehive” ...