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New Plaza Cinema’s\u00a0holiday hits, Freud’s Last Session<\/strong> and The Teachers’ Lounge <\/strong>surged again in the first weekend of the new year, and we’ll again feature them with additional shows over this MLK holiday stretch.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The 12:15 pm show of Freud’s <\/strong><\/em>on Monday will, per numerous audience requests, be an open-captioned version, and Teachers’ Lounge<\/em><\/strong> will be joined on the schedule by another Oscar “Short List” candidate, this one in both the documentary and international feature categories.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The film is Four Daughters<\/strong><\/em>, whose Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania is no stranger to Oscar competition. Her 2020 drama, The Man Who Sold His Skin<\/em> was a nominee for Best International Feature. Her new film premiered in last spring’s Official Selection in Cannes, a rare honor for a documentary. Its daringly ambitious subject matter and style merits, I think, quoting Richard Brody’s New Yorker<\/em> review at some length:\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Family life and political history are connected through the power of imagination in Kaouther Ben Hania\u2019s hybrid documentary-drama\u00a0Four Daughters.<\/strong>\u00a0The film is centered on a tough and devoted Tunisian woman, Olfa Hamrouni, who left her abusive husband around fifteen years ago and single-handedly raised the couple\u2019s four girls (who were born between 1998 and 2005). After the Tunisian revolution, in 2011, Islamist ideology rose to prominence; Olfa\u2019s two eldest daughters, who were teen-agers in the mid-twenty-tens, became devoutly religious, joined ISIS, and were arrested. Ben Hania tells the family\u2019s story through interviews with Olfa and her two younger daughters, and through reenactments in which actresses play the absent daughters and also Olfa, when scenes are too painful for her to relive. The real-life subjects, taking the lead in the restagings, deliver a revelatory, poignant blend of drama, memory, and self-scrutiny.”\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Director Kaouther Ben Hania will join us for a Q&A after Saturday evening’s 7:15 screening.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

Other Q&A’s this weekend include:\u00a0<\/p>\n