Four Daughters
Documentary
2023
110 minutes
18+
The life of Olfa, a Tunisian mother of four, transforms one day when her two eldest daughters run away to join the Islamic State in Libya. In this blend of reality and re-enactment that summons professional actors as well as Olfa herself and her youngest daughters, the documentary weaves an intimate interrogation of intergenerational violence, rebellion, and womanhood.
Kaouther Ben Hania, a Tunisian filmmaker educated in Tunis and Paris, directed acclaimed shorts like “Sheik’s Watermelons” and “Wooden Hand”, garnering international festival recognition. “The Challat of Tunis”, her first feature-length film, opened the ACID section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. Her fiction film “Beauty and the Dogs” was selected in Cannes Film Festival’s 2017 Un Certain Regard. Her latest, “The Man Who Sold His Skin”, premiered at Venice and earned an Oscar nomination in 2021 for Best International Feature. Her latest Documentary “Four Daughters” earned her second Oscar nomination in 2024 for Best Documentary. It premiered in Cannes’ Official Selection.