"Four Daughters", which premiered on Friday at the Cannes Film Festival, explores the true story of how a mother comes to terms with the decision by two of her children to flee to Libya and join the extremist organization, and her responsibility for it. The violence of men, and Tunisia's politics throughout the Arab Spring are constantly in the background. "Four Daughters is an enthralling narrative about memory, motherhood and the inherited traumas of a patriarchal society," said The Hollywood Reporter. "I wanted to explore the violence that we transmit from mother to daughter that is not unique to Tunisian society," Ben Hania told AFP, calling it a "curse". "The new world has yet to arrive," she said of Tunisia after the 2011 revolution and the rise of Islamists in the country.
