Encounters South African International Documentary Film Festival

DIRECTOR: Hamza Ouni | Tunisia| 2013 | 88min

If Holden Caulfield was Tunisian and had a best friend, his story may be like that of Khairi and Mohamed; a foul-mouthed curse in the black night of post-Arab Spring disillusionment. A pre-dawn bang on the door and the two friends are off to work, loading bales of hay onto trucks crisscrossing the countryside. It’s a job they abhor almost as much as their country. They’d much rather curse the Revolution, get drunk in caves, terrorise pedestrians from the back of scooters, look for sex and dream of escaping Tunisia to become drug dealers in Italy. And all the while watch the best years of their lives slip away. The Revolution has come and gone, but so what? “This is Tunis. This is our fucking life.”