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Tag Archives: Tunisia
Beirut the Encounter (1981) Borhane Alaouié, Haithem el Amine, Nadine Acoury, Najoua Haydar

Just after telephone communication is restored between the warring East and West sides of Beirut Read More »
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 »