A Season Betwen Heaven and Hell. Genre: Drama. Director: Mourad Ben Cheikh. Cast: Ahmed Hafiane, Sondos Belhassen, Slah Msadak. Release Date: 2008-10-06. Runtime: 14 minutes. Rating: 0/10. The sole pleasure of Ala, a literature professor and poetry lover, is to share drunkenness with poets. «The Epistle of Mercy», a work about Heaven and Hell, written nearly a thousand years ago, is the subject of the day. In his inebriation, the waitress and bar owner become characters from this work.