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  • 2023
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  • 1 h 47 m

Summary Between light and darkness stands Olfa, a Tunisian woman and the mother of four daughters. One day, her two older daughters disappear. To fill in their absence, the filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania invites professional actresses and invents a unique cinema experience that will lift the veil on Olfa and her daughters' life stories. An intimat...

Directed By: Kaouther Ben Hania

Written By: Kaouther Ben Hania

In Theaters Now
  • 2023
  • Not Rated
  • 1 h 47 m
  • 2023
  • Not Rated
  • 1 h 47 m
Four Daughters
Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 15 Critic Reviews
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Summary Between light and darkness stands Olfa, a Tunisian woman and the mother of four daughters. One day, her two older daughters disappear. To fill in their absence, the filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania invites professional actresses and invents a unique cinema experience that will lift the veil on Olfa and her daughters' life stories. An intimat...

Directed By: Kaouther Ben Hania

Written By: Kaouther Ben Hania

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Generally Favorable Based on 15 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 15 Critic Reviews
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87% Positive
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100
Nov 9, 2023
It is full of joy and laughter, as well as tears. It is about many things, among them sisterhood, the difficulties of parenting, processing trauma in a patriarchal society, and religious extremism. But most of all, it’s filled with life, and all the triumphs and pleasure, pain and disappointments that go with it.
By G. Allen Johnson FULL REVIEW
90
May 22, 2023
It’s frequently an uncomfortable watch and, at points, prompts prickly ethical questions about the potential for the re-traumatisation of documentary subjects. But, perhaps more unexpectedly, this bold and confrontational film is also joyous, playful and in some ways even empowering.
By Wendy Ide FULL REVIEW
88
Oct 27, 2023
As Olfa and the sisters give perspective on their shared trauma and heartbreak and discuss the underlying principles of it with each other and the actresses, what ensues is not simply the story of a family but a tour de force examination of women’s place in the world and the costs of how they choose to cope with it.
By Peyton Robinson FULL REVIEW
80
May 23, 2023
What Four Daughters does do, it does brilliantly. Ben Hania and her subjects give us a profound live window into the cycle of trauma and, in doing so, radically trace an under-recognized path between deeply personal pain and dogmatic extremism.
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75
Oct 24, 2023
A fascinating metacommentary courses beneath the film’s emotional storytelling surface.
By Derek Smith FULL REVIEW
67
May 25, 2023
Despite Ben Hania sticking to her cinematic formula “Four Daughters” is genuinely hard to forget. It will linger with you for days afterward. That’s mostly due to Olfa’s heartbreaking perseverance to find her children and a wee bit of Ben Hania’s storytelling skill too.
By Gregory Ellwood FULL REVIEW
60
May 22, 2023
There is real emotional warmth and human sympathy in this otherwise somewhat flawed film, a docudrama experiment in getting actors to play some of the real people in a tragic news story from Tunisia.
By Peter Bradshaw FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Tanit Films, Cinétéléfilms, Twenty Twenty Vision Filmproduktion GmbH, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Ministère des Affaires Culturelles, Centre National du Cinéma et de l'Image, Red Sea Film Festival Foundation, ZDF/Arte, Jour2Fête, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Sunnyland Film, Fonds Images de la Francophonie, The Berlinale World Cinema Fund, Kamel Lazaar Foundation for Art and Culture, Cairo Film Connection, Sacem
Release Date Oct 27, 2023
Duration 1 h 47 m
Rating Not Rated
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Awards

Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US
• 3 Nominations
Cannes Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Brussels International Film Festival (BRIFF)
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations

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