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Releasing on Oct 27, 2023
  • 2023
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 47 m
  • 2023
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 47 m
Four Daughters

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

  • 2023
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 47 m
  • 2023
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 47 m
Four Daughters
Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
78
User Score Available after Oct 27, 2023

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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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
78
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Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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13% Mixed
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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
90
May 22, 2023
Rarely does Ben Hania’s film feel exploitative or manipulative. In fact, more than anything, Four Daughters is radical in its honesty and courage.
By Lovia Gyarkye FULL REVIEW
80
May 24, 2023
Like a kind of cinematic Lego set, Ben Hania takes the building blocks of filmmaking and constructs from them something cathartic, affecting and original.
By Phil de Semlyen FULL REVIEW
80
May 22, 2023
With so many moving parts, it’s hard to isolate just one reason why Ben Hania’s film — a vast improvement on her terminally uneven, unexpectedly Oscar-nominated “The Man Who Sold His Skin” — should prove so gripping.
By Jessica Kiang FULL REVIEW
75
May 22, 2023
It’s a veritable snakepit of uneasy decisions that grips you with its novel approach to so-called truth-telling before lapsing into something a little more conventional.
By Steph Green 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
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Awards

Cannes Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Brussels International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Munich Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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