Film guide 2009
Buried Secrets
Three secluded women find their fragile domestic world disturbed by the arrival of strangers.
- Original title
- Dowaha
- Director
- Raja Amari
- Year
- 2009
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Story, without spoilers
Aicha, Radia and their mother live out of sight in a deserted house where the family once worked as servants. When a young couple moves in, the women try to remain hidden. Aicha’s curiosity about the newcomers unsettles the rules that hold their household together.
Context & recognition
Raja Amari describes her second feature as a dark fairy tale. The 2009 film uses rooms, thresholds and concealed lives to explore desire and dependence through a young woman’s changing sense of herself.
Main characters & cast
Aicha
Hafsia Herzi
The younger sister, drawn towards the newcomers’ unfamiliar world.
Radia
Soundes Belhassen
Her older sister, resisting the disruption of their secluded life.
The mother
Wassila Dari
The woman who shares the house and its secrets with them.
