ANNOUNCER: She Had a Dream candidly follows Ghofrane Binous, a charismatic and confident young activist as she runs for office in Tunisia during the legislative elections.
♪ Tunisian director Raja Amari's lens offers a vulnerable peek into Ghofrane's turbulent campaign, as she pleads with family and friends to make their votes count.
♪ Binous' dream to be a champion of change is unwavering, and contagious.
♪ Personal encounters along the campaign trail reveal the challenges and discrimination Tunisian women battle with ambitions to build a more inclusive society.
♪ ♪ She Had a Dream, on Afropop.
♪ ♪ This season on Afropop: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange-- discussions on growing up abroad in the midst of the Sudanese revolution; the bold and unshakeable campaign of an ambitious Tunisian woman; a group's mighty trek down the Congo River for reparations; the fight to return a continent's stolen culture; and a chart-topping band's rise to international stardom.
Powerful stories that are shaping the world in extraordinary ways.
♪ ♪ ANNOUNCER: Funding for Afropop: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange, is provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the MacArthur Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
♪ GHOFRANE BINOUS (speaking a Tunisian language): ♪ ♪ (indistinct chatter) ♪ (children playing in distance) (dog barks) (voiceover): (voiceover): ♪ (laughter) (seagulls squawking) (music playing on phone) NEWS REPORTER (on radio): CAB DRIVER: BINOUS: CAB DRIVER: BINOUS: CAB DRIVER: BINOUS: CAB DRIVER: BINOUS: CAB DRIVER: BINOUS: (cab driver chuckles) WOMAN: MAN: BINOUS: BINOUS: (laughter) WOMAN: (laughter, crosstalk) WOMAN: (indistinct chatter) WOMAN: BINOUS: WOMAN: BINOUS: WOMAN: BINOUS: MAN: BINOUS: MAN: (children shouting in distance) BINOUS (voiceover): (crowd chanting) (indistinct chatter) (laughter, chatter) WOMAN: (baby crying) BINOUS: WOMAN: BINOUS: WOMAN: BINOUS: MAN: MAN: (insects chirping) BINOUS: WOMAN: BINOUS: (chuckling) ♪ ♪ BINOUS: (explosion) (siren blaring) (crowd chatter, sirens blaring) (scattered clapping, crowd chattering) CROWD (singing): CROWD (singing): (cheers and applause) (wind blowing) (birds chirping) YOUNG WOMAN: BINOUS: YOUNG WOMAN: BINOUS: YOUNG WOMAN: (chuckles) BINOUS: YOUNG WOMAN: BINOUS: YOUNG WOMAN: (indistinct chatter) BINOUS: HAIRDRESSER: BINOUS: HAIRDRESSER: BINOUS: HAIRDRESSER: BINOUS: HAIRDRESSER: BINOUS: (music playing) (phone ringing) WOMAN: (singing) (singing): (singing) NEWS REPORTER (speaking a Tunisian language on radio): ♪ (crowd chanting) ♪ ♪ (birds chirping, distant chatter) NEWS REPORTER (on television): ♪ NEWS REPORTER (on radio): BINOUS: ♪ ♪ (voiceover): ♪ (indistinct chatter, laughter) (laughter) COUSIN: BINOUS: COUSIN: (laughter) BINOUS: COUSIN: BINOUS: COUSIN: BINOUS: WOMAN: BINOUS: BINOUS: GRANDFATHER: (laughter) (laughter) BINOUS: (laughter) GRANDFATHER: BINOUS: (voiceover): WOMAN (speaking a Tunisian language): WOMAN: (indistinct chatter) ♪ (music playing on stereo) (women chatting) (scoffs) WOMAN: WOMAN: WOMAN: (laughing) (engine idling) BINOUS: (Binous and cab driver arguing): BINOUS (voiceover): ♪ (indistinct chatter) (speaking a Tunisian language) BINOUS: (Binous laughing) MAN: WOMAN: BINOUS: BINOUS (laughing): BINOUS: BINOUS: VOLUNTEER: WOMAN: (speaking a Tunisian language) BINOUS: MAN: BINOUS: ♪ (chattering) MAN: (chattering) ♪ (laughing) (chattering) ♪ (insects chirping) BINOUS: MAN: BINOUS: MAN: BINOUS: MAN: BINOUS: MAN: BINOUS: MAN: BINOUS: MAN: MAN: BINOUS: BINOUS: MAN: BINOUS: MAN: BINOUS: ♪ (car horns honking, people chattering) (indistinct chatter, honking horns continue) BINOUS: (indistinct chatter, honking horns continue) WOMAN: BINOUS: BINOUS: WOMAN: WOMAN 2: BINOUS: (indistinct chatter) (drum beating) WOMAN: (drumming continues) ♪ (Binous exclaiming) MAN 2: MAN 1: (drumming continues) (slicing) (places knife down) MOTHER: BINOUS: MOTHER: MOTHER: BINOUS: (laughs) MOTHER: (laughs) (horns honking) (indistinct chatter) ♪ (dance music playing, man speaking) (people singing, clapping) ♪ (no dialogue) (man speaking indistinctly) ♪ (man shouting) (music playing) (crowd singing, clapping) (birds twittering) BINOUS: ♪ ♪ ♪ (speaking a Tunisian language) MAN: BINOUS: MAN: BINOUS: (rain pouring) ♪ BINOUS: ♪ (crickets chirping) Mm.
♪ BINOUS: (indistinct chatter) (chattering) (water splashing, objects clattering) BINOUS: (video playing on phone) (both chuckle) (gasps) (woman laughs) BINOUS: WOMAN: BINOUS: (gasps) BINOUS: (laughs) BINOUS: WOMAN: BINOUS: (laughs) ♪ (man speaking a Tunisian language) BINOUS: (chattering) MAN: Okay.
MAN: BINOUS: Mm?
MAN: BINOUS: (laughing) ♪ (man speaking, Binous laughs) (indistinct chatter, laughter) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ANNOUNCER: Funding for Afropop: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange, is provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the MacArthur Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
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