EXCLUSIVE: Tunisian actor and director Dhafer L’Abidine ’s third feature Sophia makes its world premiere at the Marrakech Film Festival this week and Deadline can reveal a first international teaser.

Jessica Brown Findlay stars as a British woman who travels to Tunisia with her daughter Sophia so the young girl can spend time with her father (L’Abidine), from whom she is separated.

She makes the trip against the advice of her family, and it seems their concerns are vindicated when Sophia disappears shortly after their arrival.

The film world premieres as a red-carpet gala screening at the Marrakech Film Festival on Tuesday night, having previously participated in its Atlas Workshops project incubator event last year when it was at the post-production stage.

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