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Tag Archives: Tunisia
Moolaadé (2004) Ousmane Sembene, Fatoumata Coulibaly, Maimouna Hélène Diarra, Salimata Traoré

When a woman shelters a group of girls from suffering female genital mutilation, she starts a conflict that tears her village apart. Read More »
Aïcha (2024) Mehdi Barsaoui, Fatma Sfarr, Hela Ayed, Ala BenHamad

Aya, thirty-year-old Tunisian, lives in Tozeur, a city in southern Tunisia, at the gates of the desert. Read More »
Man of Ashes / Rih Essed (1986) Nouri Bouzid, Imed Maalal

In the ensuing days before his wedding bridegroom Hachemi faces both the anxieties Read More »
Eden and After / L’éden et après (1970) Alain Robbe-Grillet

A group of French students are drawn into the psychological and sexual games of a mysterious Dutchman. Read More »
Wanderers of the Desert (1984) Nacer Khemir

A teacher is assigned to a remote desert village that is obsessed with a mysterious Read More »
The String / Le fil (2009) Mehdi Ben Attia, Claudia Cardinale, Antonin Stahly Viswanadhan, Salim Kechiouche

Malik has a lot on his plate when he returns home to Tunisia after living in France. Read More »
Four Daughters / Les filles d’Olfa (2023) Kaouther Ben Hania, Olfa Hamrouni, Eya Chikhaoui, Tayssir Chikhaoui

Between light and darkness stands Olfa, a Tunisian woman and the mother of four daughters. Read More »
Bent familia (1997) Nouri Bouzid, Amel Hedhili, Nadia Kaci, Leila Nassim

Three modern North African women on the brink of self-awareness discover the power of friendship. Read More »
Nothing to Report / R.A.S. (1973) Yves Boisset, Jacques Spiesser, Jacques Villeret, Jacques Weber

Three French conscripts with diverse political motives, are sent to a disciplinary battalion Read More »