The road, the house, the key, the animals, Bamssi. Images with the urgency of an Instagram story create a dialogue between family members across a sea: Mourad and Fairuz, Tunisia and abroad. You have to go to the roof to see something of the surroundings: the railway behind the house. Away from the house, away from home. Street dogs and cats in front of the house. Without a house, without a home. The sound of the train carries a disturbing longing. The image of the sea opens up a dangerous desire. To stay. To dream. Time passes both slowly and quickly when the possibility of new life disrupts the routine.
“Among the mundane and the affectionate, the observing eyes of this filmmaker offer a critical voice that stealthily pervades the material he has filmed: we find it in every caress of his dog Bamssi, in the birth of a litter by his cat Saïda, on the road, among the olive trees, towards the sea. From that goodness stems the political gesture, an anchor in the world. Dreams and conscience.”
Anna Brufau / Punto de Vista Festival
“Amor’s gaze roams around casually, yet always attuned to the movements of the animals and the nature surrounding him. The agency suggested by the verb “directing” doesn’t fully capture his approach to the images, for his camera moves as though the outside world itself is drawing it. He’s more of an explorer, a wanderer than a director. Olive trees, the endlessly stretching sea, train whistles from the rails, or Bamssi, with his larger-than-life personality, always running a step ahead—all become magnetic forces that pull him and us as viewers along.”
Öykü Sofuoğlu / Kortfilm.be
