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Beauty and the Dogs (على كف عفريت, 2017) is a Tunisian thriller you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Kaouther Ben Hania.
The film reconstructs one night that mirrors a true case which shook Tunisian society in 2012. Twenty-one-year-old Mariam leaves a student party with Youssef. A police patrol stops them. What follows is a night spent moving between emergency rooms, precincts, and government offices — each refusing to take her statement, each door closing a little more firmly than the last. Lead actress Mariam Al Ferjani carries the film across nine unbroken long takes shot in something close to real time, from 11 p.m. to dawn.
The film screened at the Critics' Week section of Cannes 2017. There is no resolution that tidies things up — only the question of what it costs to keep pressing. Stream Beauty and the Dogs (2017) online on iFILM.
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