SIFF 2017 Trailer: Hedi (Inhebbek Hedi)

Screening at the Seattle International Film Festival 2017. Tickets available now: Colombia | 2016 | 89 minutes | Mohamed Ben Attia The week before his wedding, a quiet Tunisian salesman meets a free-spirited adventurer who inspires him to stage a personal rebellion in this understated drama. Produced by the Dardenne brothers; winner of Best First Feature and Actor awards in Berlin. Poor Hedi. A hapless, apathetic young man, he’s used to letting his strong-willed mother run his life: She’s arranged his job as a Peugeot salesman (he hates it); she’s chosen his bride-to-be (he’s ambivalent); she’s even constructed the apartment where the couple will live after their marriage—a home right above her own. Hedi, dutiful if somewhat sullen, goes along with it all, his only escape the notebook of surrealist drawings that he secretly dreams of publishing someday. But one week before his marriage, Hedi goes on a sales visit to the coastal city of Mahdia and meets Rim, a free-spirited woman worki