The real-life story of Hamrouni and her children is the focus of “Four Daughters,” an Academy Award nominee for best documentary feature film. Today, families like Hamrouni’s are living reminders of that complex legacy, the unresolved issues and difficult questions persisting years later. “It’s … an open wound in my country,” said actor Hend Sabri, who appears in the film as Hamrouni in some scenes. Besides Sabri, actors play Ghofrane and Rahma, the daughters who left, as Ben Hania reconstructs the family’s past in search for clues for their radicalization. In the film and the family’s telling, the daughters grew up with little in a tumultuous home.

Source: Libya Today February 24, 2024 06:53 UTC