Cannes Film Fest 2022: Best Films

Under the Fig Trees

(Directors’ Fortnight)

Erige Sehiri’s intimate and original feature debut, Under the Fig Trees, chronicles the lives of women seldom appearing in screen–a group of Tunisian fig harvesters.

Trailing the characters as they pick fruit, gossip, sing, quarrel, and reconcile, the lightly feminist movie provides an immersive portrait of sisterhood, imbued with a finely detailed realism of context.

Cannes Film Fest 2022: Best Films–Under the Fig Trees

Under the Fig Trees

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