Who Do I Belong To by Meryam Joobeur

A screening of Who Do I Belong To directed by Meryam Joobeur

Aicha lives in the isolated north of Tunisia with her husband and youngest son. The family lives in anguish after the departure of the eldest sons Mehdi and Amine to the violent embrace of war. When Mehdi unexpectedly returns home with a mysterious pregnant wife, a darkness emerges, threatening to consume the entire village. Aicha is caught between her maternal love and her search for the truth.

Biographies

Meryam Joobeur

Meryam Joobeur is an Academy Award nominated writer, director and producer based in Montréal. Her short films Gods, Weeds and Revolutions (2013) and Born in the Maelstrom (2017) were screened in dozens of national and international festivals. Her short Brotherhood (2018), a co-production between Canada and Tunisia, won over 75 international prizes, was screened in 150+ festivals and was nominated for an Oscar for “Best Live Action short” (a first for a Tunisian film). Her first feature Who do I belong to (2024) premiered in official selection at the 74th edition of the Berlin Film Festival. She is an alumni of TIFF talent lab, Rawi Screenwriters lab, Berlinale Talent Lab and the Sundance Screenwriters lab.

Director & screenwriter: Meryam Joobeur

DOP: Vincent Gonneville

Art director: Mohamed Ilyes Dargouth

Editors: Maxime Mathis & Meryam Joobeur

Costume design: Salah Barka

Sound recordist: Aymen Labidi

Sound designer: Gwennolé Le Borgne

Dialogue editor: Elias Boughedir

Mix: Niels Barletta

Music: Peter Venne

Producers: Nadim Cheikhrouha, Sarra Ben Hassen, Annick Blanc, Maria Gracia Turgeon, Meryam Joobeur

Coproducers: Vincent Dupuis, Victor Lech, Baptiste Leroy, Ramsis Mahfoudh, Dyveke Bjørkly Graver, Andrea Berentsen Ottmar

Cast: Salha Nasraoui (Aicha), Mohamed Hassine Grayaa (Brahim), Malek Mechergui (Mehdi), Adam Bessa (Bilal), Dea Liane (Reem), Rayen Merchergui (Adam), Chaker Merchergui (Amine).

Production: Tanit Films, Midi La Nuit, Instinct Bleu

Coproduction: 1888 Films, Godolphin Films, Eye Eye Pictures