About
Mohammadia is one of those rare gems that have earned both critical acclaim and wide audience popularity over generations a film that is both uniquely eccentric and utterly seminal Traveling between contemporary Tunisia shot in exquisite 16mm blackandwhite and 100 years prior to independence narrated with inketched cutouts Mohammadia reenvisages official colonial history The film recounts in the style of a folk tale how Bey Ahmed I became smitten with Versailles after a trip to Paris and decided to build an equally sumptuous palace for himself in Tunis driving his country to ruin in the bargain