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- DirectorHinde BoujemaaStarsHind SabriLotfi AbdelliHakim BoumsaoudiWith her abusive husband in jail and a coveted divorce pending, hardworking Noura can almost grasp a happy, new life with lover Lassaad - but when the best-laid plans are upended, Noura must tap her unshakable will to fulfill her dream.
- DirectorManele LabidiStarsGolshifteh FarahaniMajd MastouraAïsha Ben MiledAfter years abroad in Paris, Selma returns to Tunis with the dream of opening up her own psychotherapy practice.
- DirectorNouri BouzidStarsNour HajriJoumene LimamAfef Ben MahmoudJanuary 2014. Zina and Joe, around 20, return to Tunisia from the Syrian front where they were sequestrated and raped. Zina has been separated from her two-month-old child, and Joe, being pregnant, locks herself and only talks about Syrian horror through her next novel "Raped". Nadia, a lawyer, and Dora, a humanitarian doctor, accompany them in their long and difficult reconstruction; between violence of relatives, hard feedback from social networks, and misery. Nadia, also a lawyer of Driss, 21, persecuted homosexual and expelled from all schools, asks her to help Zina.
- DirectorMoez KamounStarsSouhir Ben AmaraAbdelmonem ChouayetFoued LitaiemAfter her husband Ibrahim is sent to prison for gambling debts Fatma gets him out by promising to run their debtor's restaurant in the middle of the Sahara Desert.
- DirectorNacer KhemirStarsDorra ZarroukHichem RostomAn encounter in the desert between a lady brought by the tragic past of her family and a guide who discovers, at the end, the dark future of his family...
- DirectorMehdi Ben AttiaStarsHafsia HerziRaouf Ben AmorHaythem AchourFollowing the death of her husband in an accident, young Amel tries to find some consolation in photography. She takes photos of strangers from the street, looking at men as they tend to do towards women.
- DirectorKaouther Ben HaniaStarsMariam Al FerjaniGhanem ZrelliNoomen HamdaA college student seeks help after a brutal assault but faces a bureaucratic nightmare when she reveals that her perpetrators are police officers.
- DirectorSelma BaccarStarsWajiha JendoubiSouhir Ben AmaraFatma Ben SaïdaneEight months before the independence of Tunisia, Four Tunisian women of different ages and social conditions, end up in prison, they are condemned to coexist under the authority and injustice of their jailer, El Jaida.
- DirectorLotfi AchourStarsCynda AbdenebiDoria AchourRafika Akkari"Burning Hope" is at once the story of an unlikely friendship and the portrait of a fragile country haunted by so many ghosts. Between investigation and intimate story, the movie tells the crossed destinies of two young women and a teenager in a post-revolution Tunisia, swinging between hopes and disillusionment.
- DirectorSarra AbidiStarsSondos BelhassenFatma Ben SaïdaneJamel ChandoulIn southeastern Tunisia, Salem and Halima spend months waiting for news of their son Ahmed, who has been smuggled overseas to Italy.
- DirectorRidha BehiStarsHind SabriHichem RostomBadis BehiA mother refuses to surrender to the statues quo of the new reality of the Arab world and travels into the heart of darkness of ISIS to bring back her recruited son home.
- DirectorRaja AmariStarsHiam AbbassSarra HannachiSalim KechioucheAfter a young Tunisian woman informs on her radical Islamist brother, she arrives illegally in France, finding danger as well as hope.
- DirectorMohamed ZranStarsSamar MatoussiRaafa AyadiMoez BaatourLilia is a girl with magnetic, hypnotic and rare beauty that gives her a power of seduction which she uses and abuses with impunity, until the day she falls madly in love with her alter-ego.
- DirectorIsmahane LahmarStarsMariem Ben ChaâbaneFatma Ben SaïdaneNadia BoussettaThe story of the dysfunctional Tounsia family where Zakia, the matriarch of the family loves her son Selim to the point of enslaving the rest of the family. And the rest of the family just want one thing, and that is for Selim to get married and be out of their lives forever.
- DirectorFadhel JaziriStarsAli JaziriYasmine BouabidMohamed DrissHind, a popular television show producer and star presenter, falls in love with Lassaad, a police commissioner who was investigating a murder of a building contractor. in the process, they discover a network of Jihadist smugglers to Syria.
- DirectorLeyla BouzidStarsBaya MedhaffarGhalia BenaliMontassar AyariA few months before the revolution in Tunisia, 18 year-old Farah has a passion for life and sings in a political rock band. Her mother, knowing the dangers of Tunisia, wants her to pursue a career as a doctor.
- DirectorSonia ChamkhiStarsAïcha Ben AhmedGhanem ZrelliJamel MadaniWhile Mehdi is torn between his secret gay affair and the perspective of getting married, his sister Hind struggles to face her present and to reveal the secrets of her past kept in the dark.
- DirectorAbdelwaheb BoudenStarsAmira Ben YoussefMehdi MidaniA young woman meets a young fisherman on a beautiful deserted beach. They spend the day discussing, swimming and playing in the water. While he sleeps on the beach, she leaves the scene and walks slowly away on the beach.
- DirectorMoez KamounStarsAhmed GasmiFatma NasserJamel SassiBetween his fiancee and his passion for a married woman, Karim's vision of life will be transformed.
- DirectorNouri BouzidStarsSouhir Ben AmaraNour MeziouLotfi AbdelliTwo young Tunisian women strive for the same emancipation enjoyed by men.
- DirectorNada Mezni HafaiedhStarsTaoufik AyebYasmine AzaiezNejib BelhassenDifferent stories of Tunisians people that lives in a society bubbling of pride , lust, desire , misery and anger.
- DirectorAbdellatif Ben AmmarStarsLeïla OuazNeji NejahHassan KechacheBizerte, Tunisia, winter of 1991, a Tunisian writer entrusts the typing of an autobiographical manuscript to the young woman, Chama, thanks to the content of the book, now she feels the need to dive even more into the events of the war in Bizerte.
- DirectorAïda Ben AleyaStarsFaten AleyaHalima BejaouiHanene Ben ChagraFour women are locked up for disobedience at «Dar Joued». Some will end by becoming submissive, others will refuse to submit.
- DirectorAïda Ben AleyaStarsAmira ChalbiAhmed HafieneAbdelmadjid BakirThe story of Donia, a lonely young girl who tries by all means to survive her difficult life.
- DirectorRaja AmariStarsHafsia HerziSondos BelhassenWassila DariA teenager unwittingly reveals a terrible family secret to the new neighbors.
- DirectorKarin AlbouStarsLizzie BrocheréOlympe BorvalNajib OudghiriThe Nazi occupation of Tunisia strains the bonds of friendship between a Muslim woman and a Sephardic Jewish woman who are both preparing for their marriages.
- DirectorRachid FerchiouStarsManel AmaraMohamed Ali Ben JemaaYounes FerhiFarés a taxi driver, the happiest man in the world brings his wife Fatma home from the clinic after having their first born son, but fate decides otherwise when he picks up a mysterious passenger.
- DirectorSelma BaccarStarsRabiah Ben-AbdullahRaouf Ben AmorAlaa Eddine AyoubThe bright future of a beautiful young bride grows increasingly clouded the dissatisfaction of her marriage drives her to addiction and insanity.
- DirectorJilani SaâdiStarsAnissa DaoudMohamed GrayaâAtef Ben HassineA young prostitute's plan of revenge with the help of one of the men that raped her.
- DirectorKhaled Walid BarsaouiStarsNadia BoussettaAhmed HafieneMoez GdiriIt tells the story of a girl who runs away from an arranged marriage on the eve of her wedding to be with her sweetheart.
- DirectorMoufida TlatliStarsHiam AbbassDorra ZarroukHichem Rostom
- DirectorNadia El FaniStarsSonia HamzaMuriel SolvayTomer SisleyFrom a remote mountain village in Tunisia, Kalt, a female hacker hijacks the airwaves in Northern Africa and France to broadcast political messages. When Julia, a French Intelligence officer, gets on the case, she flies in from France to infiltrate the hacker world and find out who is behind the interruptions. Things quickly turn into a cat-and-mouse game as Kalt and Julia play each other to get what they want.
- DirectorRaja AmariStarsHiam AbbassHend El FahemMaher KamounAfter 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.
- DirectorNouri BouzidStarsAhmed HafieneHind SabriOumayma Ben HafsiaThe 40-year-old Omrane is in charge to find maid placements in Tunis for the girls from his village. But the most rebel of the girls has escaped and he has to look for her to get her back in the right path. The girl refuses to lose the freedom she just obtained. For her part, the young Fedlah who was enthusiastic by going to town quickly discovers a world where childhood doesn't belong to.
- DirectorAbdellatif Ben AmmarStarsHouyem RassaaAhmed HafieneHichem RostomZeineb has always been strong-willed. She refuses, divorces, and asserts her will. Once divorced, she is free on paper, but remains enslaved as her ex-husband refuses to respect the law, hiring men to violently hound her. Should she leave? She follows Mhamed, who loves her, but who wants to emigrate himself. In the ensuing road movie that takes us deep down into southern Tunisia, the landscapes become increasingly desert-like. The beauty of the settings regularly carries the narrative. The couple, torn by this question of departure in reflection of a country that is losing its children, meet Ali who returns from America wealthy. Is he a mytho-maniac, an impostor? In any case, he is friendly and is himself torn by this painful uprooting vis-à-vis his sister who is forced to get by on her own. In one fine image, his justifications are drowned out in the noise of a passing train. Is emigration a mirage? A departure towards another form of poverty? Mouldi, Ali's sister's husband, denounces the drain of the country's best elements, saying, « It suits you to bury the past to absolve yourself. »
- DirectorKhaled GhorbalStarsAwatef JendoubiNabila GouiderBagdadi AoumRaped by her cousin at 17, Tunisian country girl Fatma flees her sexuality, even binding her breasts, She also flees her patriarchal, traditional family by going to Tunis to attend university. There, she unbinds her breasts and opens up to her own sexuality. She quits university to become an elementary school teacher in a small village. There, she meets and falls in love with a young doctor. At first, she rebels against the hypocrisy that requires a bride to be a virgin, but then pays a gynecologist to stitch her hymen so it will break again on her wedding night and make her groom believe she is a virgin.
- DirectorMoufida TlatliStarsRabiah Ben-AbdullahSabah BouzouitaGhalia BenaliThe 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.
- DirectorMahmoud Ben MahmoudStarsYasmine BahriHichem RostomLubna AzabalThe country has changed a lot in the absence of the father Wahid Haydar and the daughter Sofia, returning to Tunisia after a long stay in West Africa and after being separated from her French mother for ten years, the young Soufia arrives in Tunis heavily steeped in her African heritage, feeling trapped, now claims her way back to her mother.
- DirectorNouri BouzidStarsAmel HedhiliNadia KaciLeila NassimAmina a married Muslim woman living in Tunis with her two daughters. Even though she is allowed certain freedoms as a Muslim woman this is curtailed when she meets her old friend from school Aida.
- DirectorKalthoum BornazStarsRim TurkiMouna NoureddineAli MosbahThe 27 years old Nozha comes home with a sense of failure and despair following a long absence after marrying against her family's will.
- DirectorNadia FaresStarsNozha KhouadraSamia MzaliAmel Hedhili"Honey and Ashes" tells the stories of three women from contemporary North Africa. Caught between tradition and modernity, they seek success in their lives and in their relationships with men. Although their age and social backgrounds differ, their paths cross, bringing to light the multiple obstacles which society has placed in their way.
- DirectorFérid BoughedirStarsSonia MankaïAva Cohen-JonathanSarah ParienteSummer, 1967. La Goulette, the touristic beach of Tunisia, is the site where three nice seventeen-year-old girls live: Gigi, Sicilian and Catholic; Meriem, Tunisian and Arab; Tina, French and Jewish. They would like to have their first sexual experience during that summer, challenging their families. Their fathers, Youssef, Jojo and Giuseppe, are old friends and their friendship will be in crisis because of the girls, while Hadj, an old rich Arab, would like to marry Meriem.
- DirectorSelma BaccarStarsSouad AmidouFéodor AtkineNéjib BelkadhiFollows the last years of Tunisian singer Habiba M'sikar's life between 1927 and 1930 when she was at the peak of her glory and performed in the "soirées" of Tunis.
- DirectorMoufida TlatliStarsHind SabriGhalya LacroixNejia OuerghiAs she grows up, Alia (the daughter of housemaid Khedija) learns the secrets of the peaceful palace where she and her mother live.
- DirectorMoncef DhouibStarsMustapha AdouaniFatma Ben SaïdaneMohamed Ben SmaïlLocked in a room until the release of her fiance from prison, a young woman escapes with the help of his brother.
- DirectorFitouri BelhibaStarsNadia SamirAhmed SnoussiAhmed Ben SmailIn a fishing village in southern Tunisia, Regaya, a beautiful young woman whose husband dies, refuses remarriage. Yet this is what a woman must do in Muslim society. Her father emigrated to distant France can only speak of his own suffering. She tries with her courage and her body to live her independence without breaking with her culture, her rituals and her traditions. With Fettah, the man whose thoughts she takes, she will try to live a new love away from all.
- DirectorNéjia Ben MabroukStarsOthman KhemiliFatma KhemiriMouna NoureddineBased on director Néjia Ben Mabrouk's own experiences growing up. Sabra refuses to be reduced to a traditional domestic role in mid-1980s Tunisia. With the reluctant support of her mother, she seeks an education, while facing intense pressure and scrutiny from the male-dominated community.
- DirectorAbdellatif Ben AmmarStarsYasmine KhlatRaouf Ben AmorDalila RamesTunis in 1980, A family leaves the old city, the Medina of Tunis to settle down in one of the new populated cities on the outskirts of the capital.
- DirectorOmar KhlifiStarsHassiba RochdiAnissa LotfiZohra FaïzaThe film tells the story of two girls. Saadia was raped after fierce resistance, which allowed her to take revenge by killing her attacker, but the village men's council felt she had been provocative and sentenced her to death. She is shot and the women of the village, transgressing the tradition, follow her funeral procession. As for Selma, who loved Hedi, she sees her father forcing her to marry another man. His lover comes back hastily but drowns. Became crazy, she succumbs in turn.
- DirectorAbderrazek HammamiStarsZohra FaïzaFatma BahriHabib BelharethOmmi Traki is an old woman, active and mingled with everything, who arranges everything in her family and in her neighborhood. Around her are her husband Salah, who is content to observe with a mocking air the result of the interventions of his wife, the spoiled son Ali, a young man whom she still considers as a child, the good Zouzou.
- DirectorRachid FerchiouStarsEwa SwannRichard LeducM'Rad BeyOn his birthday, Sadri walked out on his mistress Lisa, and the party planned in his honor. While walking along the beaches of Carthage in the dead of night, he sees a young woman rise up out of the waves. She told him her name was Yusra.
- DirectorAhmed KhechineStarsAly BorginiHabib ChaariKhedija JenaouiA poor family abandoned by their father, an unemployed brother dreams to emigrate and sister who works in a factory, falls for a young mechanic who seduces and abandons her.
- DirectorAli AbdelwahabStarsOulayaZohra FaïzaHattab DhibAbbes, the best rider of the village, has fallen in love with a girl who is already engaged to Ahmed. She returns his love and marries him but the unhappy fiance will not hear of it and murders Abbes. He is arrested but soon released due to lack of evidence. Om Abbes, Abbes' mother, is furious and swears to take revenge on the killer. Three years later, a pilgrim arrives in another village and wins the confidence of all. In fact, this 'hadj' is none other than Om Abbes in disguise, in search of Ahmed.