TUNISIA: Bab'aziz. 2005

Director: Nacer Khemir
Stars: Parviz Shaminkhou, Maryam Hamid, Nessim Kahloul, Mohamed Grayaa, Golshiteh Frahani.
Release date: Nov 2006
Genre: Drama
Length: 96 mins

Looks like a huge co-production between Tunisia/Germany/France/UK & Iran. In Arabic language. Desert & snow environment films are No 1 in my book. I love 'em. This just looks & sounds interesting.

Synopsis
Ishtar is a little girl who guides Bab’Aziz, an old blind dervish, through the desert to attend a big meeting of dervishes. Just like in a treasure hunt, they get to cross the paths of several characters : twin brothers Hussein and Hassan, with very different temperaments, the prince who decided to build a palace in the middle of the desert, Osman who is trying to leave the country and Nour looking for his father. All these stories interweave around Bab’Aziz like a dream "which is within another dream and so on until the infinity of grains of sand."

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