REINE MÈRE (QUEEN MOM)
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Amel is a stay-at-home mother of two daughters. The family’s life is thrown into disarray when the landlord demands the apartment back. Amel refuses to move to the suburbs or take her children out of school. After a history lesson on Charles Martel, her eldest daughter Mouna encounters the ghost of the military leader, who is said to have repelled Arab invaders at the Battle of Poitiers in 732.
REINE MÈRE tells the story of a migrant family that arrived in France in the late 1980s and experienced social decline and racism. Following UN DIVAN À TUNIS, Manele Labidi offers a political reflection on the plight of migrants—a topic that remains relevant to this day.
REINE MÈRE (QUEEN MOM) Direction: Manele Labidi, DCP, OmeU, 93 min