Tunisia's submission to the 2023 Oscars was director Erige Sehiri's Under the Fig Trees. Using non-professional actors, Sehiri's feature debut follows a group
of young fig pickers over the course of a day as they flirt, gossip, argue
and form connections with one another.
The film stars Fide Fdhili, Feten Fdhili, Ameni Fdhili, Samar Sifi, Leila Ouhebi,
Hneya Ben Elhedi Sbahi, Gaith Mendassi, Abdelhak Mrabti, Fedi Ben
Achour
and Firas Amri.
Under the Fig Trees is in UK/ROI cinemas from May
19th.
Check out the trailer below.
The official synopsis reads:
Among the trees, young women and men working the summer harvest develop new feelings, flirt, try to understand each other, find - and flee - deeper connections.Developed in collaboration with a group of non-professional actors from Kesra, a fig-growing region of Tunisia, this fictional debut invites us to spend a warm day with a group of students working in the orchards over the course of a summer, learning to appreciate that picking figs is a task that cannot be rushed.