Four Daughters: Performance as therapy, cinema as healing
Seated on a couch and facing the camera are five women. In the middle is Tunisian matriarch Olfa Hamrouni. On her left are younger daughters Eya and Tayssir. On her right are two actresses (Nour Karoui and Ichraq Matar), hand-picked to stand in for missing older daughters Rahma and Ghofane. The truth about their disappearance is cloaked in metaphorical garb: we are told both were “devoured by the wolf” at the ages of 16 and 15. The truth is withheld until our spirit of inquiry can meet the weight of revelation on Olfa,…