On Saturday, the Tunisian feature film "4 O'clock Flowers" was introduced in the world, and the Middle East during the events of the 45th Cairo International Film Festival.
Directed by Khedija Lemkecher, and shot in Tunisia, the film represents the hunger of youth and young people to sail into the sea and take the risk of illegal immigration to reach the other side of the shore, of the Mediterranean where the land of dreams believed to be.
The events of the film revolve around Djo, a boxing gym manager in the “Helal” neighborhood near Tunis. He finds Yehia who is an innate boxer with unique talents. Djo accompanies Yehia to be Tunisia's champion. Yehia, who is a straight-edge guy with several family and financial crises, takes the boat with his friends to immigrate to the other side of the sea, but his life ends under the waters.
Yehia's dream of watching a siren who takes his hand comes true as the siren guards his body until his trainer comes to take the body.
The symbolism of the film is not about the life of Yehia who represents thousands of young people whose lives are swallowed by the grey, senseless waves, but their bodies which are never found, or buried under dry dust.
The tragic waves, grey and dark blue sea, the sadness and death that are in every corner of the city which hundreds of its residents are under the sea.
The film which follows a simple plot, leaves behind great emotions of loss, and despair.
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