(1 Jan 2025)
TUNISIA MOBILE CINEMA
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tunis, Tunisia – 29 December 2024
1. Various of people arriving to watch film in Cinema Tdour, a mobile cinema truck that travels around Tunisia to bring people films
2. Sign reading (Arabic): "Cinema Tdour – the cinema comes to you wherever you are"
3. People seated, waiting for film to start
4. Screen
5. Film director Ines Ben Othmen presenting her film before screening
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ines Ben Othmen, film director:
"Among those watching the film, perhaps 50 of them will develop an interest in music, cinema or theater. Instead of harming others, they will write a song to express their thoughts about their situation in life."
7. Various of Olympic Taekwondo Champion Firas Katoussi (red jacket) and Olympic Karate champion Khalil Jandoubi (grey jacket) standing outside Cinema Tdour truck
8. Katoussi speaking with young man
9. Katoussi and Jandoubi posing for photo with WHO representative Olfa Saidi (black jacket)
10. Katoussi speaking to audience at Cinema Tdour
11. Jandoubi speaking to audience
12. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Khalil Jandoubi, Olympic champion:
"I have faced many difficult times, and I want to tell them not to give up and to resist in order to achieve their dreams. We come from humble neighborhoods and we did not find the encouragement and support we needed. We believed in ourselves and succeeded. I wish that these young people would also resist, succeed and dream. Nothing is impossible."
13. Graffiti reading (Arabic): "Hilel neighborhood"
14. Various of man creating graffiti of Omar Laabidi, a young man who died following a police chase
15. People walking down street
16. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Meriam Ben Zayed, Cinema Tdour project manager:
"Unfortunately, the cinema halls in Tunisia are all centered in the capital. Outside the capital, there are no cinemas. So, we decided to go to them rather than having people travel 30, 60 or even 90 kilometers to see a film."
17. Various of Cinema Tdour truck
18. World Health Organization poster reading (Arabic): "Health for everyone"
19. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Olfa Saidi, WHO representative:
"During the screening, there were health awareness sessions presented by health experts in various fields, such as combating smoking, addiction, mental health for children and adolescents, resisting violence, promoting sports and healthy nutrition."
20. Cinema Tdour logo
21. People gathering outside cinema truck
STORYLINE:
Whereas people typically go to the cinema halls to watch movies, an initiative in Tunisia is bringing the cinema to the audience.
The Cinema Tdour mobile setup travels on wheels to overlooked Tunisian communities that have no easy access to the cinema or the country’s culture scene.
Some Tunisians have to travel up to 90 kilometers (56 miles) to reach a cinema hall, said Cinema Tdour project manager Meriam Ben Zayed.
"Unfortunately, the cinema halls in Tunisia are all centered in the capital. Outside the capital, there are no cinemas," she added.
Apart from simply showing movies, the mobile cinema aims to inspire young people. .
"Among those watching the film, perhaps 50 of them will develop an interest in music, cinema or theater. Instead of harming others, they will write a song," said Ines Ben Othmen, a film director.
Ben Othmen recently presented her film to the audience before it was played inside Cinema Tdour’s truck.
"The cinema comes to you wherever you are.” readis its logo in the Cinema Tdour truck.
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