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- After the death of her husband, Lilia's life revolves solely around her teenage daughter, Salma. Whilst looking for Salma late one night, Lilia stumbles upon a belly dance cabaret and though initially reserved and taken aback by the culture of the place, Lilia gets consistently drawn back to it. She befriends one of the belly dancers and is encouraged into dancing for the audience. Lilia also starts a romance with one of the cabaret's musicians, who unbeknown to both of them, is also romancing Salma.
- A man who violently breaks free from his banal environment, evading society with its principles, codes and institutions.
- After a young Tunisian woman informs on her radical Islamist brother, she arrives illegally in France, finding danger as well as hope.
- A teenager unwittingly reveals a terrible family secret to the new neighbors.
- Hedi, a young man with great dreams, is struggling his way through social conventions in Tunisia. While his mother tries to decide his life for him, Hedi meets Rim and suddenly he discovers that his world goes beyond and above conventions.
- Ahmed joins his father Habib, whose state of health is deteriorating. They find themselves in a chaotic situation for which neither is prepared.
- The film revolves around the relationship of two teenage sisters in one of Egypt's Nile Delta cities, one of them holds a secret life in the virtual world.
- The gulf between men and women in Tunisia, political, psychological, and physical, is explored in this downbeat drama. A woman and her two daughters return to the female community on the island of Djerba from Tunis, where her husband works.
- This is the story of three boys and one girl who survive in an unequal society. Their destiny crosses that of the Tunisian revolution
- A Tunisian middle class couple with high hopes for the future of their only son discover he's left to join ISIS in Syria.
- Set amidst the civil war of Algeria in the 1990s, Enough! is the story of two women. Emel is a Westerner whose husband, a journalist, is missing - perhaps kidnapped or even killed for articles he's written.
- Golden-age Sarannah is married to Hamdy, an Egyptian man 30-years her junior. Could this be true love - or is it yet another unspoken 'business' relationship so often seen in contemporary Luxor? Sarannah feels she was given a new shot at life at 50 and can now re-live her youth. Madly in love with Hamdy, all she wants to do is spend time with him and enjoy life. In her eyes, he is not like the other gold-digging Egyptian men. Certainly not like Khaled, who married her friend Nerchia, before finding a much younger 2nd Egyptian wife to provide him with children. Nerchia struggles to accept that the kind loving man she loved changed so drastically. She has to make hard decisions now that she knows his true color. As for Abdel-Rahim, a local tour guide married with 2 kids, he will do anything to find a well-to-do foreign woman to secure his future. In the primitive part of the touristic city of Luxor, locals try to escape poverty by marrying older, foreign women. Abdel, like many others, connects with women online to entice them to move to Luxor. It is through an online platform he connects with an older German woman, Monica. After a few months of online romance, she falls for him, moves to Luxor and promises to take care of him. Through confessional meetings with these couples, we get a rare and honest insight into these relationships - mutual arrangements of a sort, that blurs the boundaries between business and romance.
- Sarah, a young North African native woman living in Belgium, finds out that the man she loved back in North Africa, is about to get married. Deceiving her friends and family in Belgium, she crosses the Mediterranean by herself to see him one last time. Even though she knows that the marriage is inevitable...
- On a road trip, Ahmed a train conductor is torn between his loyalty to the old Tunisian railway company and his personal aspirations, while Fitati, his colleague, chooses to become a whistleblower on train accidents.
- Donia, her brother Yahya, Ali and Ibrahim are celebrating Donia's last night in Tunis before she leaves to study in France. They end up on a beach smoking joints. When they wake up at dawn, Yahya disappeared.
- Old Saida is called when there are weddings to enhance the beauty of brides with henna, massage and make up on their wedding day. But Miriam is not a girl like the others and refuses Saida's treatment. Even if hers is not an arrange wedding, Miriam is afraid and does not feel ready to take this step. The feelings of the young woman bring back to Saida the memories of her youth and the drama of a marriage to a man who was twice her age. Between the two women arises a strong feeling of solidarity.
- I was born in Tunisia to an Algerian father and a Sicilian mother. In this motherland, I embark on a journey to discover my exiled Sicilian family, scattered between Italy and France since the decolonization.
- The writer died last summer ,this is his legacy RIP Laurent de Bonnerive!!!.
- Sarra, a young autistic girl finds herself locked up home by her mother Hend who does not accept her illness. Obsessed by her social reputation, Hend devotes herself to her daughter and decides to cure her in her own way.
- Dali is a full-time caretaker for Douja, his Down syndrome daughter. One day, and against the advice of his wife, Dali decides to take Douja to the amusement park called ASTRA. In this park, a weird and inhospitable world awaits them .
- Amina, a little girl aged ten or so, is hired as a servant for two sisters who live alone in an old bourgeois house. One of them is ill. Amina soon discovers that her fits are just a pretext, a cry for help.
- Two middle-class families oppose during a wedding meal ceremony , each wanting to establish its social superiority. It is the story of a wedding feast where the food, its forms, its colors, its abundance, update the impulses of each, making violently crack any social varnish.
- January 5, 2008, a sit-in organized by young unemployed in the city of Redeyef in the southwest of Tunisia, marked the beginning of a civil disobedience movement, which lasted six months. Their names are: Adnène, Bechir, Leila, Jemaa, Haroun, Moudhafer, Adel, they were teachers, unemployed or desperate young people. They claimed their rights to wealth, dignity and justice. It happened in the mining area, the stronghold of phosphate ore where the equation is simple and absurd: the phosphate is produced by the region that suffers the consequences (environmental and other) without benefit. 4 years later, what has remained of this human epic? Wounded souls, broken destinies, open wounds but also pride and dignity.
- Portrait of Dorra Bouzid, from her beginnings as a nationalist and feminist journalist in the journal Jeune Afrique. She also participated in the creation of eight other media including Faiza, the first Arab-African women's magazine. She collaborated on around thirty Tunisian and foreign publications, and created the Dance section at the Carthage Festival.
- A young man in his thirties, used by life and its deceptions, revisits his memories. He goes way-back to his childhood in a village of the North West of Tunisia in the mid-eighties, one of the poorest regions of the country. Over there, his grandmother used to tell him stories from forgotten times, his mother made bread at the break of dawn while the history of his country scrolled by on the TV screen: bread at the time became a stake for the people (bread riots 1983). The child grew up and the story moves on. As an adult, he leaves for the capital Tunis where he discovers a shining world full of mirages but also much darkness. The narrator moves between the different spaces, public spaces, spaces of exchange and creation, real or imaginary, which he tries to make his own in order to continue to tell his story. The triggering of popular movements which led to the revolution seem to suddenly interrupt this journey into time and memory giving a new meaning to the memories themselves .
- In a movie theater, a man and a woman exchange a few words. Then, without them being able to see each other, each one of them plunges into his imagination by creating an image a little too idealized of the other.
- A throwback to Habib Bourguiba's presidency era in 1978, focusing on the failed strike insurrection by the Union in parallel with a very memorable sport event, the qualification of the Tunisian National Team to the World Cup in Argentina.
- Explores the exciting life and adventures of Isabelle Eberhardt (1877-1904).
- An old fisherman dies and resuscitates several times. The man is a despicable character and his resurrections give rise in the first place to general curiosity. But superstition soon takes over in the villagers' hearts. They believe nature should reclaim its rights.
- Between an unrewarding job and the daily routine visit to the cafe-shop for a water-pipe, K is eager to give up his condition of frustrated and introverted bachelor to seduce Chahra, the girl of his dreams. Through a series of very particular Chinese massages, he manages to shape his personality according to the ever-changing and whimsical demands of his entourage.
- Can a law challenge a whole system and causes chaos? The testimonies of 4 characters make us discover the repercussions of this new law on their respective lives.
- After the accidental death of her taxi-driver husband, Selma decides to become master of her own life by taking over his taxi. She comes up against the Kafkaesque procedures of Tunisian bureaucracy and the offhandedness of the insurance industry, but refuses to let go and is not intimidated by anything. With quiet determination, she also faces the conservatism of her in-laws who, under the pretext of morality, continue to dictate the way she should behave. In order to create a better future for her daughter but also for herself, Selma is locked in a daily struggle with the world around her.
- Over three periods of her life, a grandmother keeps repeating to her grandson the same apparently trivial story.
- A woman returns to a place she visited as a child and finds love.