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Sabriya, is a 1997 Tunisian movie, directed by Abderrahmane Sissako, and starring Fethi Akkari, Chawki Bouglia, Rim Turki. with a runtime of 25 minutes.
Overview
Sabriya is a North African drama that gently dismantles the comfortable insularity of traditional Maghrebi masculinity. Best friends Said and Youssef have built a small paradise in the desert — a chess bar where they drink palm wine, play board games, and write love poems to women they have never met. When Sarah, a liberated and uninhibited young woman, arrives and draws Youssef into a passionate affair, the equilibrium they have maintained for years begins to crack. Youssef trades chess dreams for plans to open a café in Genoa; their friendship fractures; the bar is sold. What remains is Said, boarding a train and wondering what the modern world has given and taken away. A quiet, melancholic film about identity, change, and the friendships that do not survive them.
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