Subutex (2018)

In the district of Bab Jdid on the capital Tunis of Tunisia a Muslim country, two marginal young men Rzouga and Fanta squat an old Hamam and live a story between romance, drugs and violence. Rzouga who was able to improve big care about Fanta but also very big violence against his thin partner. However, Rzouga decides to leave Fanta but he desists after discovering the illness of his partner (hepatitis C) when he started to vomit blood. Then, they decide to make Fanta stop consuming the Subutex drug little by little. Later , The camera will follow them while they are doing a trip on a seaside city with another companion. It will show their pain caused by their alcoholism and Fanta's drug dependency, their big bloody fights where Fanta sustain a sadistic violence of Rzouga but there is also some light moment of joy and relaxation on the sea . By their return to Bab Jdid, Fanta success to stop consuming the drug but then Rzouga is arrested following a fight he had with his neighborhood about a fire who have happened on the parcel of space where they were squatting . seventeen days later with the camera following a frightened crying Fanta about the situation of his friend , Rzouga is liberated . The camera shows in a final scene of a big fight between the two men , Fanta felt again to drug dependency and he is asking violently Rzouga to inject him with a dose of subutex who is refusing to do it at that moment and seeming to be upset about that. he was even asking the cameraman Nasreddine in vain.