3 films supported by the Atlas Workshops take to the screens of Locarno and Venice!

At the Locarno Film Festival, Tunisian director Ala Eddine Slim presents his latest film Agora in competition within the Concorso Internazionale. Slim’s third feature fiction, presented at the 2023 Atlas Workshops, it focuses on a remote town in Tunisia where missing people return after many years.

In Venice, at the 21st edition of the Giornate degli Autori, Sudan, Remember Us by Franco-Tunisian director Hind Meddeb is selected as part of the festivals Special Events. The film was previously selected at the 2020 Atlas Workshops and is a collective portrait of a young generation of Sudanese fighting for freedom.

At the Venice Critics' Week, Egyptian director Muhammed Hamdy’s Perfumed with Mint is selected in competition alongside 6 other films. It was first presented at the 2019 and 2023 Atlas Workshops and is a thriller focusing on two friends escaping the ghosts of their past in an uncertain present.

Best of luck to all directors !