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Venice-Bound ‘Aicha’ Acquired in Several Territories, Debuts Trailer (EXCLUSIVE)


The Party Film Sales has closed several territory deals on Mehdi M. Barsaoui's 'Aicha,' ahead of its premiere at the Venice Film Festival.

Buyers include Cineart for Benelux, La Aventure Audiovisual for Spain, Discovery for former Yugoslavia, Jour2fête for France, I Wonder for Italy and Hakke Distribution for Tunisia. Realizing this could be her chance for a fresh start, she flees to Tunis under a new identity, but everything is soon jeopardized when she becomes the main witness to a police blunder. “In her pursuit of life, Aïcha faces numerous obstacles: family authority, submissiveness, misogyny, sexism—and more generally women’s place in society.

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