La Mère des sources

Om Layoun is a feature-length documentary film that aims to open a societal debate, in Tunisia and elsewhere, on the absolute and urgent need to better manage available water resources, through the adoption of new economic models oriented towards more water, ecological, social, intergenerational and economic justice. The film is based on a simple idea: water is a common good for all of humanity, and access to it, in line with needs, is a fundamental human right that should not suffer any preconditions. As a necessary condition for biological and social life, water must not be considered a marketable commodity, as it is today. This is what Om Layoun tries to demonstrate, discuss and defend by showing situations of scandalous waste and/or shocking deprivation induced by the internal mechanisms of the water market and, more generally, by the dominant extractivist economic model, situations exacerbated by the effects of climate change. Filmed in Tunisia, Om Layoun starts from the local to address the global and uses numerous "Tunisian" situations to discuss the issue in its diversity and complexity, which goes far beyond national borders.