Sunday, 6 October, 7 pm

Feature film by Afef Ben Mahmoud and Khalil Benkirane

The dance company “Without Borders” ends its tour in Morocco. During the penultimate performance in the Atlas Mountains, Aida (Afef Ben Mahmoud) provokes her life and stage partner Hedi (Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui), who hits and injures her in front of the other dancers. In the hope of saving the last performance, the group immediately sets off to find the only doctor in the area and treat Aida. To avoid an animal, the bus skids and miraculously stops at the side of the road. Now they are stuck in the forest, the full moon illuminating a majestic and eerie landscape. Thus begins a kind of road movie: instead of waiting for the driver to return, the whole group decides to walk through the forest to reach the village. Along the way, the true faces of the individual characters are revealed.

Backstage celebrated its world premiere in Venice in September 2023 (Giornate degli Autori, Cinema et Arts Prize).

Tunisia, Morocco, Belgium, France, Norway, Qatar, Saudi Arabia 2023, 102 min., original version (Arabic) with English subtitles

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