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Monday, November 12, 2018 – 02:00
There, where the darkness and brutality behind the bars, about 220 prisoners found themselves to follow the Algerian film "To the End of Time" of the director Yasmine Shuweikh, in the prison "Mernak" in the suburbs south of Tunis.
This is part of the fourth edition of the Carthage Film Festival in Prisons, the first of its kind in the Arab and African countries, as a result of a partnership between the General Directorate of Prisons of the Tunisian Ministry of Justice, the Carthage Film Festival and the International Organization against Torture.
The Carthage Film Festival visited several Tunisian prisons, including the Mornaq prison, with a capacity of 900 to 1,000 inmates.
Since 2015, this film festival allows prisoners to have fun watching movies to break their monotony behind bars.
Tales of outdoor bars
Last Tuesday, at 7:30 pm, the movie "To the End of Time" was released. The eyes of the prisoners were hit by the giant screen that was erected in a large room inside the prison. It only remains to watch the details of the film and enjoy it.
The faces of the prisoners revealed their attachment to life through a screen that tells stories outside the walls that hold them. When the film was screened, the interaction was laughable when comedy scenes and applause were heard when a passage of a song was adopted.
For most of the prisoners involved in the film, most of them were involved in common law crimes (such as violence, property aggression, theft, etc.). However, only three of them were sentenced to terrorism, according to a source inside the prison.
For more than 90 minutes, the prisoners forgot the high walls of the prison, their heavy days behind them, and plunged into another vibrant world reflected through the golden screen window.
According to the initiators of the initiative, culture plays a major role in the return of the prisoner to his citizenship and his status, qualifies him for his reintegration into society and contributes to improving his relations with prison officials.
The movie "To the End of Time" offers a critical look at the nature of life in the rural community and the status of women in a closed society through "sarcastic" scenes about certain practices and rituals.
The film, which lasted 94 minutes, told a story of unfinished love in a cemetery in the village of Boulkabur between Ali, the guard of the cemetery, and Jawhar, widow of seventeen, who had asked him to prepare his funeral in his lifetime.
But Ali was surprised by her strange request and could not refuse what she dreamed of and accepted.
And accelerated the events and developed the emotional relationship between "essence" and "Ali" to be invited to marry, despite the meeting of the two heroes in the cemetery of the dead, but this love was greater than the particles of space and time.
The film expressed all the conflicting feelings from life to death, disappointment, hope, distress, vulva, sadness and joy.
The film was screened in prison in the presence of Algerian filmmaker Yasmine Shweikh, who could not hide her happiness that her work helps to alleviate the sufferings of the prisoners and make them smile and hope.
Cultural creativity
Murnaq prison director Salah al-Din al-Badrouni said that the prisoner had the right to enjoy his cultural rights and to watch Carthage Film Days films despite the deprivation of liberty.
He explained that this film festival is not the only cultural event that has touched the door of the prison, but that it is organized throughout the year in coordination with regional delegates of culture and sport Ben Arous.
These performances include representations of painting, music and theater, as well as sports activities in the prison.
Al-Badrouni confirmed that the "Murnak" prison had recently opened a film club, which distributes weekly films for prisoners, which was distributed among them to take full advantage of it.
According to Al-Badrouni, these cultural and sporting performances aim to evaluate the behavior of prisoners in order to become an active member of society.
He explained that the role of the prison was to create the conditions for the detainee to unleash his energies in cultural creativity, according to the talent that characterizes him, pointing out that the prisoners "Mernak" had produced a number of creations.
* Anatolia News Agency
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