Where the Wind Comes From
When an unexpected opportunity arises to live and work in Europe, Alyssa decides to leave. She asks her childhood friend Medhi to travel with her from Tunis to Djerba. Medhi is a dreamer with artistic talents; Alyssa is a hustler with an unyielding drive to succeed.
During the journey, their friendship is put to the test. The dangers along the way bring old traumas to the surface and confront them with their fears, desires, and insecurities. What begins as an escape turns into a journey full of hope, turmoil, challenge, and self-discovery.
Where the Wind Comes From is a warm feel-good film about friendship, drenched in shades of yellow, red, and especially blue. Alyssa and Medhi each dream of a different future, but it is precisely in their differences that they complement each other: one is the brake, the other the accelerator.
The film is at once fresh and poignant, playful and serious, visually powerful and emotionally resonant. With humor and gentleness, Guellaty shows that dreams don't have to be naive—sometimes they are even essential to life. In addition, the film is subtly interwoven with the social reality of a young generation of Tunisians, without judgment, but with compassion and humanity.
- Direction
- Amel Guellaty
- Cast
- Slim Baccar, Sondos Belhassen, Eya Bellagha
- Duration
- 100 min
- RELEASE
- Thu 12 Feb
- Year
- 2025
- Country
- Tunisia
- Language
- Arabic
- Subtitles
- Dutch