Ashkal

The story follows a man who has set himself on fire in the Tunisian neighborhood of Carthage Gardens. The same neighborhood where Mohamed Bouazizi immolated himself in 2010, triggering the jasmine revolution. Except that this new suicide bomber is a construction worker with no political connections. On the trail of the event, the young policewoman Fatma, who struggles to be seen and heard in a male context, and who together with the veteran Batal will witness the beginning of a bewildering chain of bonzes throughout the city, linked only by an intriguing, hooded and faceless figure. (Seville European Film Festival)