• Director(s)

    Kaouther Ben Hania

  • Production Year

    2023

  • Release date

    02/02/2024

  • Genre(s)

    Documentary

  • Approx. running minutes

    108m

  • Cast

    Olfa Hamrouni, Eya Chikhaoui, Tayssir Chikhaoui

Film

Four Daughters

child sexual abuse references, sexual threat, domestic abuse

The story of a Tunisian family dealing with the disappearance of two daughters who have joined a terrorist organisation is told in this combination of documentary and drama, which contains unsettling themes and material.…

The story of a Tunisian family dealing with the disappearance of two daughters who have joined a terrorist organisation is told in this combination of documentary and drama, which contains unsettling themes and material.

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Content Advice(May contain spoilers)

violence

threat and horror

language

sex

drugs

sexual violence and sexual threat

self-harm

injury detail

  • Director(s)

    Kaouther Ben Hania

  • Production Year

    2023

  • Release date

    02/02/2024

  • Genre(s)

    Documentary

  • Approx. running minutes

    108m

  • Cast

    Olfa Hamrouni, Eya Chikhaoui, Tayssir Chikhaoui

child sexual abuse references, sexual threat, domestic abuse
Classified Date:
28/02/2024
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Modern Films
violence
There are verbal references to physical domestic abuse within a family, and dramatised enactments of the abuse, such as a mother slapping her teenage daughters who have rebelled in different ways, and an older sister hitting a younger one as punishment for the latter's lack of religious devotion. In another enactment, a police official manhandles a disruptive young woman. There is documentary footage of a rocket attack on a terrorist compound and references to resulting fatalities, as well as to acts of terrorism. There are comments about a man who served time in prison for murder.
threat and horror
A woman recalls facing threatening situations with her mother after they were abandoned by the family patriarch. In a dramatised re-enactment, a young woman in a mentally distressed state thrashes about on a bed during an exorcism ritual initiated by her desperate mother who believes she has been indoctrinated and overcome by religious fundamentalism.
language
There is moderate bad language ('bitch', 'whore', 'slut'), as well as milder terms such as 'ass', 'asshole', 'shit', 'butt' and 'damn'.
sex
There are references to "foreplay" and "intercourse", and to a father's irrational, sexist belief that his daughters would grow up in an immoral environment and become "tramps" and "whores".
drugs
In a dramatised sequence, a man is seen with a belt around his bicep to indicate his misuse of drugs.
sexual violence and sexual threat
Young women give undetailed accounts of their childhood and being sexually abused by a man with whom their mother established a relationship following the break-up of her marriage to their father. In a dramatised re-enactment of the mother's wedding night, her husband attempts to force himself on her against her wishes, but she resists and kicks him several times causing bloody injury to his face on which she rubs a bedsheet, the bloodstains enabling her to pretend she has proof that, according to custom, her husband is the first man with whom she has had sex.
self-harm
In a dramatised scene, a young woman flagellates herself in an undetailed manner in a demonstration of extreme religious devotion.
injury detail
There is occasional sight of bruising and bloody injury in the aftermath of violence.
theme
There are scenes of emotional upset centred on conflicts within a family and the estrangement of family members caused by differences of religious beliefs.
Classified Date:
05/02/2024
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Modern Films

  • Classified date

    28/02/2024

  • Language

    Arabic