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فولاذ

By Mehdi HMILI, Abdallah CHAMEKH

YOL FILM HOUSE - as PROD

True Story - Production 2024

In the biggest steel factory of Tunisia, on the edge of being privatized, two workers suffer from physical and psychological disorders after their close colleague died in the explosion of an oven in front of their eyes.

- Year of production
- 2024
- Genres
- True Story, Drama
- Countries
- TUNISIA, LUXEMBOURG, FRANCE, QATAR, LEBANON
- Languages
- ARABIC
- Budget
- 0.6 - 1 M$
- Duration
- 100 mn
- Director(s)
- Mehdi HMILI, Abdallah CHAMEKH
- Writer(s)
- Mehdi HMILI
- Producer(s)
- Moufida FEDHILA (YOL FILM HOUSE), Donato ROTUNNO (TARANTULA LUXEMBOURG), Michel BALAGUÉ (Volte Films)
- Synopsis
- In the biggest steel factory of Tunisia, on the edge of being privatized, two workers suffer from physical and psychological disorders after their close colleague died in the explosion of an oven in front of their eyes. While they try to overcome their trauma, we discover the intimacy of these two workers: Batfing, the young rap singer and drugs addict who claims seeing ghosts and Fethi, the former cinema projectionist who is losing his view.
  Then begins a long descent into hell for the two workers who gradually detach themselves from the real world and question the meaning of life and the sacrifice they make to provide for their families.
  Conceived as a long funeral poem and divided into 3 chapters; Hell, Purgatory and Paradise, the film follows two generations of steel workers who survive in a factory of terror, waiting for a national renaissance.