Cast
Lotfi Abdelli Afef Ben Mahmoud Mohamed Ali Ben Jemaa
Credits
Written by: 
Nouri Bouzid
Cinematography: Michel Baudour
Music: Najib Cherradi
Produced by: Abdelaziz Ben Mlouka
Plot
A young break-dancer and unemployed man in Tunis is drawn to an Islamist group and then given the role of a suicide bomber.
Sinekatalog’s take
Nouri Bouzid's drama follows an unemployed Tunisian break-dancer drawn into an Islamist group and given the role of suicide bomber. Lotfi Abdelli is electric in a tense, humane film about radicalisation and disillusion.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 6.6 / 10 (187 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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