"The Needle", Tunisian film wins 5 awards at Turin Film Festival in Italy 🎥

The film "The Needle" by Tunisian director Abdelhamid Bouchnak won five awards at the 42nd session of the Turin Film Festival in Italy, which concluded its activities on Saturday evening, November 30, 2024.

The feature film "The Needle" won four awards and a mention, which are the Best Feature Film Screenplay Award, the Readers' Jury Award, the "Respect for Minorities and Secularism" Award, and a mention from the Gandhi Award Committee" awarded by the "Regis Sereno" Center for Studies, in addition to the "Holden School" Award awarded to students for the best screenplay.

The various committees praised this cinematic work, which is distinguished by "the courage to raise a subject rarely addressed in narrative cinematic works", which are minorities carrying "congenital or sexual deformity" or what some consider to be an identity disorder Nationality and others see it as bisexuality, in addition to the film highlighting one of the basic rights of individuals and denouncing discrimination in a society based on stereotypes and prejudices.

The "42nd session" of this festival, which was held from November 22 to 30 in Turin, northern Italy, and is dedicated to young people and was founded in 1982, witnessed the participation of 120 films in three competitions: the feature film competition, the short film competition, and the documentary film.

The film "The Needle" stars Fatima Sfar, Bilal Sultania, Jamal Madani, Sabah Bouzouita, and Moncef Ajnaqi.

Its events revolve over 100 minutes around the story of a couple awaiting their first child after four years of marriage, but with the arrival of the baby, the doctor tells the parents that the baby has a rare peculiarity and carries both male and female sexes, so the family enters into major disputes between the father's rejection of this baby and his refusal to accept the matter and the mother's clinging to it.