Film guide 2022
Ashkal
Two investigators follow a trail of fire through unfinished buildings and unresolved political history.
- Original title
- Ashkal
- Director
- Youssef Chebbi
- Year
- 2022
Editorial profile. Availability on LAREINE TV has not been confirmed.
Story, without spoilers
A burned body is discovered in the Gardens of Carthage, a Tunis development whose construction stalled during the revolution. Police officers Fatma and Batal begin investigating amid the empty structures. Further incidents complicate an inquiry that increasingly unsettles straightforward explanations of what happened there.
Context & recognition
Youssef Chebbi’s film premiered at Directors’ Fortnight in 2022. Combining a police investigation with elements of the uncanny, it makes an unfinished urban landscape central to its questions about power and memory.
Main characters & cast
Fatma
Fatma Oussaifi
A police investigator working on the deaths in the unfinished district.
Batal
Mohamed Houcine Grayaa
Her fellow investigator, confronting the same disturbing and increasingly elusive case.
