Feature Documentary Film
TOTAL BUDGET
US $256,000
CONFIRMED FINANCING
US $40,000
CONTACTS
yol.filmhouse@gmail.com
+216 28607703
mehdi.hmili@gmail.com
+216 97881805
+33 624305938
In the biggest steel factory in Tunisia, we follow the fate of four workers who suffer from psychological and physical disorders in their struggle for survival.
In the biggest steel factory of Tunisia, we follow the fate of four workers who suffer from psychological and physical disorders in their struggle for survival during a strike. Following the explosion of an oven that caused the death of their colleague, four men with four different and moving stories in which we discover a strange world that has been revoked by people of different age groups, demand to include their company in the hazardous professions and early retirement.
In the meantime, the factory workers are aware of the intentions of the company’s management to privatize it on the pretext of bankruptcy. The strike starts with a debate about their health problems.
The film will be centered on daily living facts drawn from the spontaneity of the characters who live their daily events, to create a climate of privacy and documentation close to the reality of the characters. It relies on the internal space of the events that will reveal the imprisoned self within the psychology of the characters. Thus, the camera will be in a self-oriented relationship with the central characters, and will work on a fast rhythm in the narration of events and their synthesis. The movement will initially start in a slow pace to express the routines and the daily lives of the characters inside the plant. So the meaning changes shape in all its depth through the editing, in order to present a parallel aspect of storytelling. It constructs a new meaning by using various shots as an expressive device, adding a psychological edge to the scenes.
At the end, it will create a rhythm and add a dramatic dimension built on the double meanings. This film is crucial for me, for my characters who risk losing their lives at any moment. It's five years of hard work. This film will be like a punch in the face, it will not make any concession, neither aesthetic or dramatic; it will be cruel and beautiful, funny and tender, shocking and subversive. Just like the life of workers in the Menzel Bourguiba Steel Factory... this is the Fouledh life.
It is a film that deals with an important subject: that of the influence of capitalism on the individual, and of the consequences that result from it on people and on the Tunisian society in transition. This film is about an explosive encounter with a reality far from the cameras of the media, which questions the urgency of "living.”
The entire film will be shot inside the factory. This is a cinematic tour de force. It’s an unprecedented visual and human experience. It’s a film that requires preparation to be ready to capture the emotions of the characters. We plan to shoot with the characters while they work, to place the camera within the heat of the fire of the factory. The director and his cinematographer carefully prepared this work. Our job as producers is to ensure that the poetic truth of the film is preserved from the first frame to the last one. This film is a challenging experience and we are very excited to initiate such a cinematic adventure.
We strongly believe that it has a powerful story to tell to the world and we all need to hear it now. At the same time, we are also very confident that the creative approach of our writers/directors will bring an innovative and unique feature to the story, managing to make the film reach an international audience.
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