Tunisian rapper Karim Gharbi, better known by his stage name K2rym, prepares the release of a documentary film devoted to his artistic and personal journey.
Figure of post-revolution protest, K2rym has always aroused questions about his ascent in the field of rap but also on the origins of his fortune. This time, he chooses to tell himself without filter through an intimate and explosive work.
This documentary, currently in the promotion of the launch, promises unprecedented revelations about his life, his fights, and above all, on the gray areas of his past.
One of the most anticipated elements-and potentially the most controversial-is the participation of Nesrine Ben Ali, her ex-wife and daughter of the fallen president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
According to the first elements of the film’s trailer, Nesrine Ben Ali delivers a sincere and disturbing testimony to it, revealing unknown aspects of their relationship and tensions born at the crossroads of their opposite worlds.
She returns in particular on the last days of the Ben Ali regime, evoking an atmosphere of tension and fear within the presidential circle. The events of the revolution were followed, she said, in anxiety and disbelief.
“We did not believe our eyes,” she says, speaking of demonstrations that were gaining momentum throughout the country. She remembers a deeply worried father, trying to keep her composure despite the imminent collapse of power.
“If you hear about my death, this is totally false,” he said to reassure her, in what she describes as a suspended moment between panic and denial.
Nesrine Ben Ali also talks about the conflictual relationship of his family with his ex-husband, Karim Gharbi, explaining that this marriage has never been fully accepted. She admits having faced strong family pressures, her choice having been perceived as an act of rupture within a clan used to controlling each detail.
