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Zero! (2015)

A unique project of it's kind

In more ways than one, the feature-length documentary Zero is a unique project of its kind. The first co-production between Tunisia and India, Zero benefited from the support of the Tunisian Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of India and the International Agency de la Francophonie.

This documentary film is based on the itinerary of a singular number, the number zero. Behind Zero, as behind his no less disturbing vis-à-vis the Infinite, hide the fears and fundamental questions of humanity, on the nothingness, emptiness, eternity and infinity of space. So his entry into the world of ideas has aroused much reluctance, and it has made its way, centuries after centuries, braving taboos and sometimes deadly bans. It is throughout this advance, chaotic but irrepressible, that we will follow the zero.

In a century of ours, where the deep movements of the world cause the problems of multicultural societies to arise and societies find it difficult to integrate, it is important to share these periods of sharing, openness and respect. who have fertilized the world of ideas and, conversely, those long beaches of retreat, closure, rejection, even of inquisition in which human thought has been eroded. A revealing journey between Orient and Occident between which zero will live successively hours of freedom and repression because of its history, far from being confined to the world of trade or speculation of logic. Zero takes us to the heart of great history, that of the societies which are put in place, radiate then decline. An exemplary journey that shows that science, and with it societies, progresses simply where and when the spirit blows the strongest and especially the most freely.