WAC Film Under the Fig Trees

Friday | September 13 | 7 pm
Winona Arts Center | 228 E 5th St.
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The Winona Arts Center at 228 East 5th Street is showing a great film by Erige Sehiri entitled Under the Fig Trees on September 13 at 7:00. Cost is $5 at the door. The gallery opens at 6:00 pm.

On a hot summer night, a crew of workers arrive in a fig orchard in northwest Tunisia. Through sun-drenched leaves, the youngest of the women steal precious moments away from the foreman’s watchful gaze. Meanwhile, the elders, tasked with the careful job of packing the tender fruit, watch them and reminisce. This is a portrait of everyday life in which class and circumstance do not allow for personal freedoms but where sisterhood serves as a transformative act of resistance.

Tunisia, France, Switzerland, Germany, Qatar.

Language is Arabic with English subtitles.

93 minutes.

The Winona Arts Center is a member of the River Arts Alliance. To learn more about the benefits of membership, please visit: riverartsalliance.org/membership/.