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Blind Spot, is a 2022 Tunisian movie, directed by Lotfi Achour, and starring Ghassen Rguigui. with a runtime of 14 minutes.
Angle mort (Blind Spot) is a Tunisian documentary drama that reconstructs the fate of Kamal Matmati, a man abducted, tortured, and killed under Ben Ali's dictatorship on October 7, 1991, accused of ties to an Islamist movement. His mother spent years sending him letters and clean clothes, unaware he was already dead — a haunting testament to the regime's culture of silence and denial. Three decades later, a trial finally addresses his death, and his mother demands the return of her son's body for a proper burial. The film weaves Matmati's posthumous voice into a larger reckoning with Tunisia's manipulated collective memory, challenging the narratives that authoritarian regimes construct to shield themselves from accountability. A quietly devastating work, Blind Spot probes how truth is buried alongside the victims of state violence, and how justice — however delayed — begins with naming what was done.
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