Synopsis
The Source (La Source des femmes, 2011) is a comedy-drama you can watch online on iFILM. Directed by Radu Mihăileanu and starring Leïla Bekhti and Hiam Abbass, the film is a French-Belgian-Italian co-production that runs 136 minutes.
In a remote village somewhere between the Middle East and North Africa, the women haul water up a steep mountain path every single day. The men stay below. Young Leila has had enough — she rallies the other women to withhold sex until the village installs a water pipe. The proposal tears the community apart: elders fume, some women waver, and husbands refuse to back down. Leila refuses to, either.
The plot echoes Aristophanes' Lysistrata transported into the contemporary Arab world, and what makes it work is that the film never flattens its characters into symbols — the arguments on both sides land. Stream The Source (2011) online on iFILM.
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