SCREENING NOTE: To watch with English subtitles, make sure to activate it at the gear in the bottom right corner of the screening window.
As I Open My Eyes
This acclaimed film depicts the clash between culture and family as seen through the eyes of a young Tunisian woman balancing the traditional expectations of her family with her creative life as the singer in a politically charged rock band. As I Open My Eyes offers a nuanced portrait of the individual implications of the incipient Arab Spring.
Leyla Bouzid, born in 1984, grew up in Tunis. In 2003, she went to Paris to study French literature at the Sorbonne before graduating from La Fémis in Directing. In 2015, she directed Soubresauts (Mkhobbi Fi Kobba), her graduation film, in Tunisia a few months before the revolution.Then she chose to shoot the medium-length film Zakaria in the South of France with non-professional actors. As I Open My Eyes, her first feature film, was selected in many international festivals where it won more than 40 awards, before becoming a real success after its release in France and Tunisia.
- Year2015
- Runtime102 minutes
- LanguageArabic
- CountryTunisia
- NoteAll programs include English subtitles
- DirectorLeyla Bouzid
- ScreenwriterLeyla Bouzid, Marie-Sophie Chambon
- ProducerSandra da Fonseca
- CastBaya Medhaffer, Ghalia Benali, Montassar Ayari
- CinematographerSébastien Goepfert
- EditorLilian Corbeille
- Sound Design
- MusicKhyam Allami
SCREENING NOTE: To watch with English subtitles, make sure to activate it at the gear in the bottom right corner of the screening window.
As I Open My Eyes
This acclaimed film depicts the clash between culture and family as seen through the eyes of a young Tunisian woman balancing the traditional expectations of her family with her creative life as the singer in a politically charged rock band. As I Open My Eyes offers a nuanced portrait of the individual implications of the incipient Arab Spring.
Leyla Bouzid, born in 1984, grew up in Tunis. In 2003, she went to Paris to study French literature at the Sorbonne before graduating from La Fémis in Directing. In 2015, she directed Soubresauts (Mkhobbi Fi Kobba), her graduation film, in Tunisia a few months before the revolution.Then she chose to shoot the medium-length film Zakaria in the South of France with non-professional actors. As I Open My Eyes, her first feature film, was selected in many international festivals where it won more than 40 awards, before becoming a real success after its release in France and Tunisia.
- Year2015
- Runtime102 minutes
- LanguageArabic
- CountryTunisia
- NoteAll programs include English subtitles
- DirectorLeyla Bouzid
- ScreenwriterLeyla Bouzid, Marie-Sophie Chambon
- ProducerSandra da Fonseca
- CastBaya Medhaffer, Ghalia Benali, Montassar Ayari
- CinematographerSébastien Goepfert
- EditorLilian Corbeille
- Sound Design
- MusicKhyam Allami