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‘Red Path’ Director Lotfi Achour on Fictionalizing Gruesome Jihadist Attack and ‘Wonderful Period’ of Tunisian Cinema
A real-life ihadist murder inspired Lotfi Achour’s harrowing drama 'Red Path,' which played at the Thessaloniki Film Festival.
“When a year and a half later the second brother was murdered in similar circumstances, it brought back the need for me to talk about it because it was no longer an isolated crime but premeditated acts on the part of jihadists. “Red Path” tells the gruesome story from the point of view of 14-year-old Ashraf (Ali Hleli), who has to deal with not only the trauma of seeing his cousin beheaded but the horrifying ordeal of having to bring his head back home as a warning to his family and community. This long period was both a training in acting but also enabled me to grasp the theme of the film,” said Achour before adding that Hleli was one of the first boys they met and an “obvious choice for the whole team” from the get-go.
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