"Lotfi Achour’s ‘Red Path’ Wends Through the Cairo Film Connection The recent success of Cannes Directors’ Fortnight urban noir “Ashkal” from helmer Youssef Chebbi, and the 2021 international feat
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		"Lotfi Achour’s ‘Red Path’ Wends Through the Cairo Film Connection

The recent success of Cannes Directors’ Fortnight urban noir “Ashkal” from helmer Youssef Chebbi, and the 2021 international feature Oscar nomination for the provocative art world drama “The Man Who Sold His Skin” from director Kaout" "--START AD- #TheMummichogblogOfMalta Amazon Top and Flash Deals(Affiliate Link - You will support our translations if you purchase through the following link) - https://amzn.to/3CqsdJH Compare all the top travel sites in just one search to find the best hotel deals at HotelsCombined - awarded world's best hotel price comparison site. (Affiliate Link - You will support our translations if you purchase through the following link) - https://www.hotelscombined.com/?a_aid=20558 “So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets."" #Jesus #Catholic. END AD---" "her Ben Hania reignited industry interest in projects from Tunisian directors. The Cairo Film Connection’s work-in-progress section supports this interest by offering the first Arab world look at “Red Path,” the second feature from Tunisian theater and cinema helmer Lotfi Achour (“Burning Hope”). The production is very different in style and genre from those of his aforementioned compatriots.

Inspired by real events and deeply rooted in a particular social context, “Red Path” is set in an extremely poor and isolated region of Tunisia’s northwest where, in 2015, terrorists attacked two young shepherds. They decapitated the older boy and commanded his younger cousin to bring the severed head back to the family as a gruesome message.

Achour says, “Like all Tunisians, I was furious at my country for once again failing to protect its most vulnerable children, and not even coming to their aid when the worst happened. Nevertheless, I also felt complicit in the state of misery and abandonment in which this community found itself, and which left them at the mercy of bloodthirsty fanatics.”

Although Achour’s narrative is marked by a bloody starting point, he refuses to exploit the gruesome aspects. Rather, through the main youngster and his unique mourning process, the helmer explores the precise moment in life when the boy is brutally wrenched from innocence, and becomes aware of the violence of the world. It’s also the moment when the lad realizes that the adults he had previously thought were capable of protecting him are powerless.

Achour ups the veracity factor of his three adolescent characters by casting non-professionals from the region. To prepare them for the shooting, he used an extended pre-production period to work with them and other teenagers from the area.

The film marks a first collaboration between Achour and the expressive Polish cinematographer Wojciech Staron, known for international titles such as Paula Markovitch’s “The Prize,” Laila Pakalnina’s “Dawn” and Diego Lerman’s “Refugiado” and “Sort of Family,” among others. Producer Anissa Daoud says, “Staron’s filmography and sensibility matches Lotfi’s vision perfectly. His way of filming children (a discreet and immersive camera, as close as possible to the faces, textures and skins prematurely damaged by the trials of life), his way of filming landscapes that reveals their mystical charge, of providing substance to his image, of composing a universe that is carefully studied, singular, constructed and yet still realistic, matches Lotfi’s aesthetic project.”

Producer Daoud of Tunisia’s APA (Artistes Producteurs Associés) and her longtime collaborator Sébastien Hussenot of France’s La Luna Productions put together an international co-production package that includes Gwennaëlle Libert of Belgium’s Versus Production, and Edyta Janczak-Hiriart and Joanna Symanska of Poland’s Shipsboy. The film’s concept was developed in and supported by festival platforms including the Chabaka Program in Carthage, the Cinegouna Platform, the Beirut Cinema Platform a