Discoveries from Tunisia World Cinema

And yet it turns in a moment of filming.

After being arrested, young Lobna spends the night in an interrogation room.

In the near future, drugs will take other forms and for each dealer his goods.

Deals with Palestinian resistance, through the memory of an old woman placed by the camera in front of the spectators, as if to call them out and reminds them that "Home-Palestine" is still standing and will remain so.

A young man finds himself in an unexpected trial...

Sitting by her-self in her room, thinking with every two puffs of a cigarette, Rim the textile worker remembers the events experienced after her meeting with a young man.

The evolution of the relationships within a family locked-up under military curfew, in a metaphorical situation, dealing with the nature of relationships in the patriarchy.

10-year-old Yassine constantly lived in a scary situation maintained by his mistress until one day he had an unpredictable reaction by which he expressed an opinion diametrically opposed to what his mistress wanted him to believe.

Revolves around a certain ancestral ritual, related to female virginity, considered harmful and violent against women, is being practiced in Africa and the Maghreb countries to this day.

It takes place in a place in ruins, which seems to be a prison. The character is unleashed to go out and discover the world around him...

After many years, two Tunisian women meet again, and one starts working for the other, looking after her child. What will they do when their refreshed alliance gets challenged ?

Amer and Jobran, two masons working on a construction site in the capital, are preparing to receive the promoter of the building on which they have been working for several months. How to welcome their new boss with dignity and give a good image of their work? Following the advice of the elders, they decide to prepare him, as is the Tunisian tradition of their corporation, an excellent red tea. But will Mr. Amry really appreciate this tea?

Adapted from the short story "Visceral Love" from the collection of short stories DEMENTIA. A young man is madly in love with a girl. His particular passion overwhelms him.

A girl finds herself stuck in a loop of her own making as she struggles to define and mend her relationship.

A journey of discovery of two boys who lives between the fear of acceptance and the hope that comes from their lust in a complicated and none communicative relationship.

To define yourself is to shut yourself away. Ahmed, a young Tunisian artist, transcends standards and goes beyond the labels that are stuck on him, with a single goal: to live as his soul tells him to do.

Two names, two faces and one story: a story that is told behind the eyes of a person who is looking to be free but not lonely.

Mohamed Ali, a young father, finds himself in trouble in a bar.

Young people are waiting for visa.

Mounira sells fricassees in a used car market, a resolutely masculine place. She has an ambiguous relationship with two men, between desire, seduction and her deep need to assert her place in this world. Mounira tries to sublimate her life as best she can to escape the harsh daily life of this hostile environment.

At dawn on a holiday, after finishing his prayers, he lies in bed and falls asleep. A voice and strange words wake him up. He begins a discussion about the cowardice of men and the fatality of death.

A newspaper article published by mistake sparks multiple conflicts between a history professor, the newspaper's editor-in-chief, a businessman, and a student.

This three-minute short film shows what a wall has endured in this tsunami of contradictory and antagonistic messages, and the irrepressible need for expression of a people after a long period of total censorship.

RESOLUTION + SARABA is a film that is centered about the concept of death and memories. This work is contructed of normal and diverse moments, planned and unnplanned footage that highlights how in making memories and letting go of them one can find the sweetness of life.

A six-year-old child belonging to a family of peasants, vine growers and dairy farmers, who after a rather ordinary meeting with a man, will see his daily life fall squarely into a species. of "wonder Land" which has been totally reinvented any dimension of time and space, in which the child will venture in search of a harvest of a new type, that of being able to cultivate money, obeying a intimate conviction that only children whose dreams are crazy enough and impertinent can afford.

“Dear grandma, you’ll be surprised to hear my voice in your language…” Those are the first words in a recorded, spoken letter that was never sent, but instead played aloud in real time by the Brussels filmmaker to her elderly grandmother in Mahdia, Tunisia. In the presence of the camera, these lines turn into a voice-over which gradually transforms into a dialogue across languages, cultures, and generations.

Authentic testimonies from women in sub-Saharan Africa reveal the suffering and violence that accompany their hopeful journey to Tunisia and southern Europe. Their faces remain hidden from the camera; we see only fragments of their bodies and destinies. A chilling portrait of people who would rather risk death at sea than life in their own country.

a young filmmaker, struggles to write a film. Every idea he clings to dissolves into doubt, pulling him into a spiral of hesitation and contradictions — a mental maze with no clear way out.

In this story, the young girl Ghariba sets out on a journey to find her friend Ajeeb and discover a way to cross a river guarded by a crocodile.

A young man wakes up in a dense forest, tied to a tree, with no memory of who he is or how he got there. The only thing he remembers is the name "Diana." Confused and scared, he finds two campers nearby who discover him.

Saâdia, a cleaning woman, and Mokhtar, a night watchman at construction sites, meet. It’s the discovery of love, for both of them, in a city that offered them nothing but downfall. Yet they will come to know grace; however, the fall will be painful.

Documentary short film centered on the figure of the Bey of Tunis, made in 1912

Stopped by a police officer for a traffic violation, Bilel, a man in his thirties, finds himself in a situation where money is his only salvation. But the resulting psychological pressure he experiences leads him into an unexpected state of combativeness.

In the turbulent landscape of Tripoli in 2013, a foreign priest on the verge of departure faces a moral imperative. Compelled to assist a group of migrants sheltered in a remote cave amid the expansive Libyan desert, he enlists the services of Omar, a local smuggler with intricate knowledge of the treacherous terrain. Together, they embark on a perilous quest to locate the cave and render aid. Time passes, one migrant makes the audacious decision to venture across the barren desert, aiming for the gateway city of Tripoli.

The film is a kind of psychological and sociological portrait of Tunisians. The motif of the knife as a tool of religious ritual is present.

Comparison between human and animal, How we use part of our bodies and how do animal use their.

A documentary interview with Khookha McQueer a queer visual and performing artist, non-binary transgender activist. Active in raising awareness of the rights of people living with HIV. Discussing her personal experience, sexual health and people living with HIV’s condition in Tunisia.

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.

Zohra, a young girl from Hammam-lif (Tunisia) deals with her parents in imposing a suitor on her even if she loves another. It is one of the first Tunisian films directed by a woman.

An artist in search of inspiration… He goes in search of something but…

The meeting of two beings brought together by death. A death by taste.

Exploited by a production machine, men struggle, until…

The daily life of a stone crusher and the consequences of the force of human action in its exchange with nature.

The story of an art: dance.

A young man attaches his painting in an art gallery, several characters of different social level walk past it, everyone looks and tries to understand what is inside. Through this painting we discover the reality of all these characters and how they interact with the reality that is repeated all the time, and we discover that the painting is not only the reflection of each character but also of their concerns and their ambitions.

A girl who fights against society in order to prove her talent.

On the tower of Beb Blad

The Tunnel deals with the torture of political prisoners under the Bourguiba regime.

A dirty apron is a real problem.

With modern mutations and the logic of the free market, the individual finds himself faced with the fluctuating evolutions of the market subject to the logic of brutal profit. The job seeker is just a commodity in the handling market that is not subject to any ethics…

Time is running out, and the door won't open.

This film traces the painful story of a worker in a lime factory who, due to a lack of professional safety and given the non-existence of sickness benefit, finds himself in a most dramatic situation. To provide for the needs of the family, his wife sees herself obliged to part with all that constituted the already poor furnishings of the home. Anything goes, but the needs are still pressing. With nothing left to sell, she will ignore any concept of dignity and sell her own body. The mine continues to operate nonetheless. The film is worth especially by the first sequences which make burst the screen by their force and their realism. In their concern to transport the harsh, noisy, inhuman, destructive reality of the workers, the images manage to touch and convince the spectators, more than the (rather melodramatic) sequences of the degradation of family life. 16mm, black and white, mute

Fishermen talk about their profession being seriously threatened by the indifference of local authorities.

After being arrested, young Lobna spends the night in an interrogation room.

Deals with Palestinian resistance, through the memory of an old woman placed by the camera in front of the spectators, as if to call them out and reminds them that "Home-Palestine" is still standing and will remain so.

A young man finds himself in an unexpected trial...

Stuck in his past, an old man enters an emotional delirium while trying to go back in time.