Ashkal (2022)
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Fatma Oussaifi, Mohamed Grayaâ, Rami Harrabi, Hichem Riahi
After a watchman is found burned to death in an abandoned Tunis property development, two police officers investigate a series of similar deaths.
The story
In Tunis, inside Les Jardins de Carthage, a luxury property development abandoned after Ben Ali’s fall, a night watchman is found dead, his body charred. The circumstances are unclear: was it suicide or murder? A police officer who is a family man and has tensions with some colleagues takes on the case with his young partner. As they investigate, further deaths by self-immolation occur in a similar pattern, turning the inquiry into a manhunt. The officers must pursue the mystery while facing the unsettling possibility that the hunters themselves are being hunted.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
In Tunis, in one of the buildings of Les Jardins de Carthage, a luxury property development abandoned after Ben Ali’s fall, the charred body of the night watchman is found. Suicide or murder? A police officer and family man, at odds with some of his colleagues, and his young partner investigate this mysterious death. Soon, other self-immolations by fire follow the same pattern. A manhunt begins, but the hunters themselves seem to be hunted.
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