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| El Icha | |
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| Directed by | Walid Tayaa |
| Screenplay by | Walid Tayaa |
| Produced by | Ulysson |
| Starring | Sonsdos Belhassan Nabiha Ben Miled Dalanda Abdou Dalanda Ben Kilani Mourad Karrout |
| Cinematography | Nabil Saïdi |
| Edited by | Imen Jibéri |
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Running time | 17' |
| Country | Tunisia |
El Icha (Life) is a 2010 film from Tunisia.
Havet is a Tunisian woman of some forty years. She is a widow and has a twenty-year-old son who has emigrated to Canada. She lives with her mother in a working-class neighborhood in Tunis and works as a telemarketing operator for a French company installed in Tunis. Each morning, she leaves for work, sinking deeper and deeper into suffocating routine. At home, her life is monotonous and of no interest.
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