Saturday 9 July, 18.00

A TALE OF LOVE AND DESIRE

Barbican, London / Leyla Bouzid

Ahmed, 18, French of Algerian origin, grew up in the suburbs of Paris. At the university, he meets Farah, a young Tunisian girl, full of energy, who has just arrived in the city. While discovering a corpus of sensual and erotic Arabic literature he never imagined existed, Ahmed is torn between his physical urges, his cultural values and his poetic ideas of love.

As part of SAFAR FILM FESTIVAL 2022

This film is part of our Reclaim the Frame x International project, in partnership with women’s film festivals around the world including Regards de Femmes in Tunisia, funded by the British Council’s International Collaboration Grants and supported by Film Hub London, managed by Film London. Proud to be a partner of the BFI Film Audience Network, funded by the National Lottery. www.filmlondon.org.uk/filmhub