2023 - 68th Edition
Official section - Feature films

LAS CUATRO HIJAS

Kaouther Ben Hania
France, Tunisia, Germany, Saudi Arabia
 - 2023
National premiere

The life of Olfa, a Tunisian woman and the mother of four daughters, oscillates between light and shadow. One day, her two eldest daughters disappear. To fill their absence, director Kaouther Ben Hania calls upon professional actors and sets up an extraordinary film mechanism to unveil the story of Olfa and her daughters. An intimate journey full of hope, rebellion, violence, intergenerational transmission and sisterhood, which will question the very foundation of our societies.

Kaouther Ben Hania

She studied Cinema at the Tunisian École des Arts et du Cinéma (EDAC), and later in Paris (at La Fémis and La Sorbonne). After directing several short films, she shot the feature-length documentaries ‘Imams go to School’ (2010) and ‘Zaineb Hates the Snow’ (2016, selected in Locarno). Her first fiction feature, ‘Challat of Tunis’ (2013), opened the ACID section of the Cannes Film Festival, and her second, ‘Beauty and the Dogs’ (2017), premiered at Un Certain Regard where it won an award for the best sound creation, before receiving the Meeting Point’s Youth Award at Seminci. Her next work, ‘The Man Who Sold His Skin’ (2020), premiered in Venice and was nominated for an Oscar, while ‘Four Daughters’ (2023) was premiered in Cannes where it won the Golden Eye for the best documentary film of the festival, and will represent Tunisia in the race for the Oscar for Best International Feature Film.

DIRECTOR
Kaouther Ben Hania
SCREENPLAY
Kaouther Ben Hania
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Farouk Laâridh
EDITOR
Jean-Christophe Hym, Qutaiba Barhamji, Kaouther Ben Hania
SOUND
Amal Attia, Manuel Laval, Henry Uhl, Maxim Romasevich
MUSIC
Amine Bouhafa
PRODUCTION
Nadim Cheikhrouha, Habib Attia, Thanassis Karathanos, Martin Hampel
PRODUCTION COMPANY
Tanit Films, Cinetelefilms, Twenty Twenty Vision, The Red Sea Film Festival Foundation, ZDF/Arte, Jour2Fête
CAST
Hend Sabri, Olfa Hamrouni, Eya Chikhaoui, Tayssir Chikhaoui, Nour Karoui, Ichraq Matar, Majd Mastoura
RUNNING TIME
107 min.
TYPE
Largometraje
FORMAT
Color
YEAR OF PRODUCTION
2023
VERSION
O.V. in Arabic with English and Spanish subtitles
COUNTRY
France, Tunisia, Germany, Saudi Arabia
CONTACT
The Party Film Sales
IN SPAIN

The movies of

Out of competition
Spain, Portugal
100
Paula Ortiz
World premiere
La Bête
France, Canada
146
Bertrand Bonello
National premiere
The Permanent Picture
Spain, France
94
Laura Ferrés
National premiere
Bai ta zhi guang
China
144
Zhang LU
National premiere
Out of competition
Eyes of the Soul
Spain
70
Carlota Nelson
World premiere
La chimera
Italy, France, Switzerland
130
Alice Rohrwacher
National premiere
United States
104
Sean Price Williams
National premiere
Out of competition
India
132
Tarsem Singh Dhandwar
National premiere
Four Daughters
Les Filles d'Olfa
France, Tunisia, Germany, Saudi Arabia
107
Kaouther Ben Hania
National premiere
All of Us Strangers
United Kingdom, United States
105
Andrew Haigh
National premiere
Out of competition
Spain, Venezuela
83
Patricia Ortega
National premiere
Andrea’s Love
Spain, Mexico
101
Manuel Martín Cuenca
World premiere
Music
Musik
Germany, France, Serbia
108
Angela Schanelec
National premiere
Out of competition
The Teacher Who Promised the Sea
Spain
110
Patricia Font 
World premiere
Something Is About to Happen
Spain, Romania
122
Antonio Méndez Esparza
World premiere
Kidnapped
Rapito
Italy, France, Germany
135
Marco Bellocchio
National premiere
The Teachers’ Lounge
Das Lehrerzimmer
Germany
94
İlker Çatak
National premiere
UK, France, Belgium
113
Ken Loach
National premiere
Spain
113
Lois Patiño
National premiere
Zielona granica
Poland, United States, France, Czech Republic, Belgium
147
Agnieszka Holland
National premiere
Foremost By Night
Spain, France, Portugal
110
Víctor Iriarte
National premiere
UK, Greece, Belgium
98
Molly Manning Walker
National premiere
Opening Film
Out of competition
The Movie Teller
Spain, France, Chile
115
Lone Scherfig
European premiere