Tunis, 1942. Sixteen-year-olds Nour and Myriam are childhood friends and live in a working-class neighborhood where Jews and Muslims live together in harmony. Both secretly desire to live each other's lives: while Nour regrets not going to school like her friend, Myriam envies Nour and Khaled's romantic relationship. When the Nazi army makes its entry to Tunis, racial laws against Jews come into effect and to Tita, Myriam's mother, is prevented from working. She thus decides to give her daughter in marriage to a wealthy doctor, destroying her dreams of love.

"I wrote this film because it often happened to me, after marriage, to lose sight of close friends. Not that I experience it as a fatality, but this prompted to me to reflect on the strength of the friendships of youth, marked from an unconscious desire and from a pressing need for identification. I wanted to extend my cinematic exploration of the intimate relationships between the characters to their bodies and their sensuality. It is a film about femininity, the discovery of eroticism, and the relationship with each other."
Karin Albou

Followed by debate
"Muslims and Jews in Tunisia in 1942"
with:
- Hon. Fiamma Nirenstein (Vice Chairwoman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Chamber of Deputies)
- David Meghnagi
- leads Andrea Purgatori

Karin Albou
Born in 1968, after taking courses in drama, dance and Arabic, Jewish and French languages and literature, she studied film to Paris. Her first short film, Chut (1992), won the Best opera premiere award from Cinécinéma. After a brief experience in documentary filmmaking with Mon pays m'to quitté (1995), he decided to deal with Algeria, the country of his father's origin, with the medium-length film Aid el kébir (1999), winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival. La Petite Jérusalem, his first feature film, was selected as part of Critics' Week at the Cannes Film Festival in 2005, where it won Best Screenplay, and received two César nominations.
Filmography
Chut (cm, 1992), Mon pays m'to quitté (mm, doc, TV, 1995), Aid el kébir (mm, 1999), Innocent (TV, 2000), La Petite Jérusalem (2005), Le Chant des mariées (2008).

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