Discoveries from Tunisia World Cinema

Encounters between two women, one is marginalized by her family and leads a solitary life; the other is in the same situation because of poverty.

A man is walking in a bookstore, he is looking for a very particular book...

Discover a Berber village, Snad Jebal, through its anthropological and historical aspects.

Two friends meet by chance at a street corner. A debate ensues between them…

Two children: they separate in the game but the dream reunites them beyond the borders...

Khaoula, an Instagram influencer, leads a comfortable life with her fiancé, Wajdi, but suffers from recurring nightmares. To escape, they head on a trip with friends to explore Tabarka and Ain Drahem. Once there, mysterious encounters draw them into forbidden places where unexpected, nightmarish events begin to unfold.

Feten, a young extra for film and television is talented as an actress. She wants at all costs, despite the codes imposed by her little brother, to live her passion. Neighbors also have a say.

In a small town where the practice of credit is common, the arrival of a guest in a hotel brings advantages to the inhabitants.

Kheireddine Pasha (1822-1890) was Ottoman-Tunisian statesman and reforme. First serving as Prime Minister of the Beylik of Tunis, he later achieved the high post of Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire. He was a pragmatic activist who reacted against poverty, and looked to European models for suggestions. He applied the Islamic concept of the public interest, to economic issues. He emphasized the central role of justice and security in economic development. He was a major advocate of modernization for Tunisia's political and economic systems.

A man is about to cross a busy road, he falls, a car is moving towards him at full speed. A reality TV show begins to comment on the event: either the man will die or the driver will die, or both will die. It's up to the public to vote.

Bassem, a cinephile, is happy to attend the screening of the film Bamako as part of the 2006 Carthage Film Festival. The screening starts and Bassem discovers that the reels of the film are reversed: the film starts in the middle. No one seems to pay attention to it.

The life of an elderly man and his old wife, who are exhausted by illness, while they are waiting a long period to receive this old man's retirement fare (Manda) which made him resort to borrowing money from some of his acquaintances, but no one accepted to help him...

The spraying events that the people of Siliana experienced in November 2012, revealed their suffering, their stolen rights, and their forgotten demands.

Omar, a young teenager commits suicide. Then we go back in time to discover the events that pushed him to take his own life.

The film reveals an unknown period in Sheikh Imam’s life and his first journey after a long ban. And how a group of young Tunisians in France were interested in making his first record and persevered to meet their favorite artist, who sang with their voice and ideas and formed the awareness of the audience. The film also reveals the Sheikh's separation from his companion Ahmed Fouad Nagem. We see that the Sheikh still lives in their hearts as being present in their revolution and became popular even to the new generations in Tunisia.

Through the testimonies of five bloggers jailed a few days before the January 14th revolution in Tunisia, A Doomed Generation charts the struggle of cyber dissidents against Ben Ali’s censorship. This documentary traces the bloggers’ activism and mobilisation through the web and their influence over social media networks. It is also a report of the disillusionment of the Tunisian youth, who in the aftermath of the revolution, have been deprived of their aspirations for freedom and democracy.

"Al Bahr" is an experimental composition made by the Mediterranean Sea and is the second in a trilogy of films filmed in Mahdia, Tunisia.

Lamia, Aya and Siham suffer from the rare disease called "Xeroderma Pigmentosum", the film shows their monotonous daily lives, how each accepts their illness differently, and how each has chosen to challenge reality.

The film is set in a comedy about the life of a Tunisian family in which the mother favors her son Selim. What will the other brothers do to get the spoiled boy out of their lives forever?