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- DirectorAbed Aziz HafadaouiTraces the life of one of the most important symbols of armed resistance in Tunisia. A story that began in the mines of El Mdhilla, where he became aware of the suffering of workers and the discrimination they suffer from the French.
- DirectorHamza OuniStarsMehrez TaherThe film documents 12 years in the life of Mehrez, a gifted dancer and actor from Mohamedia, Tunisia, who struggles with his addiction to gambling and betting on horse races.
- DirectorFarah KhadharStarsSadika KeskesPortrait of the Tunisian plastic artist Sadika Keskes. The co-designer - with Houda Gorbel - of the artistic movement L'Emouvance des Emouvants which was born during Dak'art 2018, Senegal.
- DirectorRidha TliliCovers the various issues related to water deprivation in the different rural regions of Tunisia.
- DirectorHédia Ben AïchaThe olive tree is an evidence of an immense history and different customs that date back to the 8th century BC, this blessed tree played an important role in social, economic and cultural terms, a role in which we did not have enough consciousness..
- DirectorSami TliliStarsBéji Caïd EssebsiHabib BourguibaA 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.
- DirectorWided ZoghlamiStarsWided ZoghlamiFollowing the course of three Tunisian musicians as well as her own artistic career, the Director highlights the creative process and the impact it may have on everyone's life.
- DirectorMohamed Jamel NefziA tribute to the history of the educational institution in Tunisia, true stories, memories, unpublished photos and documents from the national archive of Tunisia telling the journey of former teachers and students...AL ALAOUIA duty and obligation.
- DirectorMarwen TrabelsiStarsAli IssaAlif Issa is a Tunisian anarchist painter, multidisciplinary visual artist, he is 81 years old. Skinny and small, he hides his eyes behind the glasses and leans on his red wooden skin to balance his progress. He often wears costumes made by his own care, Ali Issa spends his days, painting portraits, landscapes, recovering objects, gleaned everywhere, to install them in his installations. He always looks at his old coils and slides that he wants to restore. In his lonely solitude, he surrounded himself with domestic animals: a ball and a rooster are installed in his garden, a cat and a dog live with him, as if to isolate his son. Ali Issa shares his meals with them, he talks to them, confides in them.
- DirectorMahmoud JemniA powerful indictment against racism, through the eyes of strong characters, moving, convincing. A hot topic of the day, first discussed in Tunisia.
- DirectorMounir BaazizThe film investigates the fate of an endangered inheritance and reconstructs whole areas of the experience of a mythical photographer who bequeathed us a heritage that breaks down day by day and dies in indifference.
- DirectorFatma RiahiA personal portrait of a broken Tunisian-Bosnian family. Exprisoner and ex-jihadist Tawfik has been left alone to take care of his three teenage daughters.
- DirectorErige SehiriOn 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.
- DirectorChiraz BouzidiStarsHamma RaiunaMohammad Raiuna lives in Redayef and runs a Stambeli group of children under twenty who live in difficult social conditions. They start to work at festivals and other events but when Mohammad goes to prison and then falls sick, everything changes.
- DirectorNasreddine ShiliStarsNasreddine ShiliIn the district of Bab Jdid on the capital Tunis of Tunisia a Muslim country, two marginal young men Rzouga and Fanta squat an old Hamam and live a story between romance, drugs and violence. Rzouga who was able to improve big care about Fanta but also very big violence against his thin partner. However, Rzouga decides to leave Fanta but he desists after discovering the illness of his partner (hepatitis C) when he started to vomit blood. Then, they decide to make Fanta stop consuming the Subutex drug little by little. Later , The camera will follow them while they are doing a trip on a seaside city with another companion. It will show their pain caused by their alcoholism and Fanta's drug dependency, their big bloody fights where Fanta sustain a sadistic violence of Rzouga but there is also some light moment of joy and relaxation on the sea . By their return to Bab Jdid, Fanta success to stop consuming the drug but then Rzouga is arrested following a fight he had with his neighborhood about a fire who have happened on the parcel of space where they were squatting . seventeen days later with the camera following a frightened crying Fanta about the situation of his friend , Rzouga is liberated . The camera shows in a final scene of a big fight between the two men , Fanta felt again to drug dependency and he is asking violently Rzouga to inject him with a dose of subutex who is refusing to do it at that moment and seeming to be upset about that. he was even asking the cameraman Nasreddine in vain.
- DirectorHiba DhaouadiLamia, 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.
- DirectorWissem TliliA biography about the Reformist Kheireddine Ettounsi, who is considered as one of the most important pillars of reform in Tunisia and in the Arab and Islamic world during the 19th century.
- DirectorAhmed JemaiOn a sidewalk in downtown Antananarivo lives a community of women charcoal burners. They are accused of dirtying the city, discriminated against, constantly threatened with expulsion, but they keep up their fight to live lives of dignity. They are the only people who supply the charcoal so vital for the Malagasies' daily needs.
- DirectorHajer NefziGhzela is seventy years old and comes from Kef, both exuberant and a Sufi, he follows his own path freely, unconstrained by taboos or social dogmas. His heart throbs with love and spirituality but his rebellious body craves dance and music.
- DirectorClaire BelhassineStarsFerid BelhassineNaoufel BelhassineLotfi BouchnakAn amazing story of love and family, celebrity and music. A portrait of Hedi Jouini, the godfather of Tunisian music.
- DirectorNada Mezni HafaiedhNada Mezni Hafaiedh's Upon the Shadow follows the life of former Femen member Amina Sboui and the community of LGBTQ friends she houses in her Tunisian home. Offering unparalleled insight into life following the Arab spring, social persecution, and political struggle, from a queer perspective. Dive into the stories of Amina's strong and enchanting group of LGBTQ loves and comrades: Sandra, Ramy, Ayoub and Atef, as they bond and build queer community against a backdrop of global trauma and struggle.
- DirectorHichem Ben AmmarStarsHabib BourguibaHabib Bourguiba's return from exile on 1 June 1955 was marked by an unprecedented popular welcome. His horse race between the port of La Goulette and Tunis was a memorable event. The equestrian statue, made in 1978, came to immortalize this triumphant image. By erecting this historic moment into myth, Habib Bourguiba wanted to legitimize the presidency for life.
- DirectorSarra Ben HmidaFocusing on homosexuality within the Tunisian society, this documentary brings three stories of LGBT couples, who decided to take up the challenge of revealing their identities and their sexual tendencies to the camera.
- DirectorJuan Martin BaigorriaGaia VianelloAn incredible trip around Tunisia, that will persuade you that art can change the world.
- DirectorHabib AyebThe documentary focuses on the political, social, economical and ecological conditions of cereal and demonstrates how the food question is in fact at the heart of the issue of individual and collective human dignity as well as Tunisian's local and national food independence and sovereignty.
- DirectorOns KamounA teacher from Tunis is appointed to teach in the south of the country. Against all odds, she is hardly trying to produce her student's films. This experience of desert crossing is an initiation that transforms the will to fight in a desire to be.
- DirectorAbdelhamid BouchnakStarsMoez GdiriA historical and poetic docu-fiction which let us dive through the eyes of the characters who lived in this city, in the daily Kerkouane .
- DirectorLatifa Robbana DoghriSalem TrabelsiStarsHouda RahaliMaroua RahaliRim JouiniFormer boxing champion in Tunisia, Houda Rahali stopped fighting competition out of spite, when her sister Maroua Rahali (a boxer as well) abandoned her to start a career in France. Today Houda dreams of becoming an actress.
- DirectorNéjia Ben Mabrouk2014 in Gafsa, the central town housing both the archives and the CPG phosphate company; it had been waiting more than half a century for revolution. After planting the seeds of this revolution and having maintained its spirit at such a high cost, where does the revolution stand at this moment. How has it developed and what is its future ?
- DirectorRidha TliliFor 3 years, the director follows the daily life of four young people from the city of Sidi Bou Zid. Between their aspirations for real change and harsh reality, but always with art as a vector of life in motion, the film paints a mosaic of dreams that has been mutating since the events of 2011.
- DirectorSonia KichahAround a small caravan, people from different backgrounds meet and exchange points of view on the current and future Tunisian society. A male dancer, a female dancer, a graffiti artist and a rapper will be the characters that embody this new post Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali society.
- DirectorJana Sabina ReißmannFelix KrisaiTunis in the summer of 2015. A young democracy four years after the uprise. Eight young Tunisians finding their way in a society torn between tradition, change and failed hopes. A search for freedom, fulfillment and self-determination.
- DirectorKaouther Ben Hania2009. Tunisian Nine-year-old Zaineb lost her father. Her mother will rebuild her life with a man in Canada. But she wants nothing to do with this new country, because Zaineb has decided to hate the snow.
- DirectorAlex PitstraWhat is it like to be a child of a Tunisian playboy and a Dutch mother? Are expectations and cultures on both sides compatible?
- DirectorBen Ahmed HamdiCut off from the world, deep in the desert of Tunisia, without papers and birth certificates, The last six families from 'Rebayaa' tribe maintains a nomadic lifestyle. We discover their day-to-day life, its traditions, songs and music. Their decision to end with this lifestyle and take the road to the 'civilized" world, the borders between Tunisia and Algeria and how to get a citizenship becomes the community debate.
- DirectorElyes BaccarStarsAmira DerouicheAfter the elections that followed the Tunisian revolution, as well as the violence that shook the country, an author seeks to make a film on women's issue in his motherland. He makes his questioning the subject of his film and starts a journey .
- DirectorFethi SaidiFollowing the events linked to the fall of Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali's regime, tens of thousands of Tunisians have taken to the open in the hope of starting a new life on the other side of the Mediterranean. For several years, hundreds of young "harragas" have gone missing. Many families are certain of their survival and continue to ask for explanations of the reality of their situation after their landing in Italy. The camera takes us to Cité Ennour, one of the suburbs of Tunis, inhabited by Tunisians from a large majority of the Kasserine region. It is in this region that most of the disappeared lived and where about thirty families suffer from the disappearance of their children left without leaving new. The film plunges us into a social context that continues to push Tunisians to leave the country illegally. It is through the daily life of two characters that we immerse ourselves in the reality of the neighborhood. Hamed, TV repairer in the city, is a father of four children, including two parties in Italy. One of them is missing since March 2011. The film deals with this absence of the son, in the family of Hamed, as in other families of the district. Mohamed, long tempted by immigration, finally resigned himself to stay in the country to live from the collection of garbage that he recovers in the biggest garbage dump in Tunis. Like many other residents of the neighborhood, he only has this activity to begin his new family after a teenage split between collection in the dump, delinquency and prison.
- DirectorHeifel Ben YoussefArbi, a young Tunisian, left when he was 15 years old to what he believed to be the European Eldorado. Today Arbi has 23 years old and with no status. End of bets.
- DirectorFarah KhadharStarsFérid BoughedirFérid Boughedir, the Tunisian film-maker and the journalist, historian and defender of the African and Arabic cinema, is filmed, through various situations and places between Tunisia and France, and more particularly around the preparation and during the realization of his movie Spring flavor, a comedy on the Tunisian revolution.
- DirectorSoumaya BoualleguiAn arson attack ravaged the mausoleum of "Saïda Manoubia", a holy Saint of Sufi of the 12th Century, on the evening of October 15 to 16, 2012. This film attempts to revive "Saïda" from its ashes through life stories of women who believe in it.
- DirectorInes Ben OthmanTraces the eternal conflict relationship between the police and the citizen through fanatical football supporters. The stadium like an arena of gladiators brings together all genres combined; unemployed, marginalized, intellectuals; all come loudly their urges and their anger.
- DirectorSamy ElhajStarsOmar BeyThe Tuniso-English plastic artist Omar Bey works on large pieces mixing his attachment to the desire to surprise and a melancholic observation of the status of the artist in Tunisia and the state of the world at the time he lives . Omar Bey gives himself up to Samy Elhaj's camera to document his fight, his aesthetic choices and a little of his life.
- DirectorLeila ChaibiHélène PotéIn Tunisia, the "Tasfih" is a ritual which aims to protect young girls from any penetration, desired or suffered, before marriage. It closes the bodies and protects virginity and family honor.
- DirectorAnissa Daoud85 years after the publication of Our Woman in the Shari'a and the society of the famous Tunisian reformer Tahar Haddad, Anissa Daoud raises the question of the political participation of women in the aftermath of the Revolution, notably by following the actions of the LET ( League of Tunisian Electricians), feminist association founded in April 2011. Whether magistrate and former candidate for the presidency of the republic (Kalthoum Kennou) or anonymous activists, what assessment can these women make of their participation in the socio-political life of post-revolutionary Tunisia?
- DirectorFeriel Ben MahmoudThe Arab feminism existed for over a century. From Beirut to Casablanca, passing through Riyadh, Cairo and Tunis, this documentary tells the unknown History and wonders about the possibility of its perpetuation in the current geopolitical context.
- DirectorWalid FellahMany sub-Saharan migrants are fighting against the system of borders for their right to a better life. A barbed-wire fence makes a city Ceuta impenetrable, separating it from Europe. Some try to cross the border facing kilometers of sand, caves, stones, crossings river and mountains, others remain stuk in Choucha refugee camp in southern Tunisia. These people have only one big dream: to be on the other side of the border. At the same time, in a Europe still too far away, many human rights activists lead a peaceful march calling for the abolition of borders and free of movement: a universal human right.
- DirectorBahram AlouiA 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 .
- DirectorNidhal ChattaStarsHichem RostomYassine Ben YahiaA father and his son leave in quest of Zero, a most weird figure. Indeed, Zero fascinates as much as it worries and disturbs.
- DirectorAdel BakriIn a rural and colorful evocation of the green hills in the north of Tunisia, the film traces two days of meeting with two women; guardians of unique heritage and a collective memory and make their families live with their work.
- DirectorHind MeddebStarsKlay BBJMohamed Amine BouhriziMarwan DouiriThey're fighting for free speech from lower class neighborhoods. Young Muslim rappers actively participated in the Tunisian revolution. But today, they've become disillusioned. Trapped between the rise of religious conservatism and the return of the Police State, they are searching for a way of their own. Every one of these rappers has been jailed for their lyrics. At their release, they spoke out against police violence and the poor treatment they suffered.
- DirectorAdnene ChaouachiThe story begins 3 weeks before the assassination of the member of the National Constituent Assembly Mohamed Brahmi. Brahmi denounces before the ANC the assassination of his friend Chokri Belaid and his truth about this terrorist act. He expresses his rejection of the project "constitution of Ennahda and its allies". Brahmi found himself on guard against the persistence of the terrorist threat and spread of anarchy in Tunisia as well as in Iraq and Syria.
- DirectorMohamed ChalloufStarsMoustapha AlassaneTimité BassoriFérid BoughedirThe career of Tahar Cheriaa, one of the core fathers of Pan-Africanism and founder of Africa's first film festival, the Carthage Film Festival.
- DirectorMaki BerchacheNathalie NambotStands in the paradoxical crossroads between a lively ongoing revolution energy, the momentum of a departure to Europe and the violence of a declined welcoming. The film searches the existence of a sensitive frame at a time of rupture.
- DirectorNéjib BelkadhiTunisia, 2011. The transition is abrupt. The country is in full euphoria. From sit-in crowds at Kasbah Square to long queues in front of polling stations, the road to the electoral date is tumultuous. Everyone enjoys the fruits of this historic opportunity in its own way. Everyone is counting on elections to turn a page and write a new one. Multiplying election promises, politicians position themselves and seek to defend their visions. Their supporters invest public space in the conquest of voters. "7½" is a vertiginous dive in a period where Tunisian streets beat with a race for change, a flashback that tickles our memories and our consciences.
- DirectorAbdallah YahyaIn a Tunisian village El Omrane in Sidi Bouzid (283 km from Tunis), massive arrests against young people who demonstrated their right to work. The elders of the town decide to start a hunger strike. Hamza 12, helps us discover the village, between resistance and memory.
- DirectorHamza OuniTwo young Tunisians struggle to survive by working in the hay trade. With no alternative other than unemployment or exploitation, their dreams of a carefree youth quickly turn to despair. A film with wild energy that leaves a bitter taste while making a sharp statement on Tunisia today.
- DirectorValérie LoewensbergTunisia, an era of cultural revolution meets a series of interviews with five groups of artists committed to the democratization of culture in Tunisia since the fall of the former dictatorial regime of Ben Ali. Their new rights acquired since the departure of Ben Ali, liberty of expression is still in danger and the struggle for the democratization of art has only just begun. Through graffiti, contemporary Arabic calligraphy, theater, music, street art and cinema, they invite the civil society, including the populations of regions through the country, to express and reflect on the problems of the country. Beyond the presentation of their mode of expression, these "cultural activist" also tell us about the effect of the revolution, the importance of culture as well as their visions for the future of Tunisia.
- DirectorAyten Mutlu SarayRidha TliliA sensitive portrait of Sidi Bouzid, drawn by its residents with a deep rooted and sharp political consciousness.
- DirectorBelhassen HandousStarsBelhassen Handous2008, student in Spain, Belhassen Handous begins to film his daily life with a mobile phone. His foreign student life in Europe, his return to Tunisia, the young people who dream of elsewhere from both sides of the Mediterranean, the revolution.
- DirectorGhassan AmamiStarsZied TouatiA reading of historical events which tends to "rehabilitate the 93 imprisoned victims by collecting their testimonies on the acts of torture and persecution to which they have been subjected for more than two decades"
- DirectorNacer KhemirStarsLamine BelkhodjaSabrine GhannoudiNacer KhemirA political Docu-Fiction that tries to answer, even through Utopia, the hope aroused by this new Tunisia in the making.
- DirectorTarek TibaFocus on the Tunisian identity in music of the current generation, through interviews with musicians and recordings of their concerts, on the investigation of the different ways of exploiting music and whether artists can make a living from their profession.
- DirectorNasreddine Ben MaatiThrough the testimonies of 5 bloggers jailed a few days before the January 14th revolution in Tunisia, the film is an account of the struggle of cyber dissidents against Ben Ali's censorship, their mobilization and influence through social networks and the internet. It is also the report of the disillusion of the Tunisian youth deprived of its aspirations of freedom and democracy..
- DirectorMohamed Amine BoukhrisJanuary 2011. Events in Tunisia triggered massive uprisings throughout the Arab world. It was a historical moment that could not be missed by the journalists on the ground. They were the soldiers in the shadows, constantly on a quest for information and the truth. They operated as our eyes and our ears, even in the midst of the most violent conflicts, sometimes at the expense of their own lives. Lucas, Nicolas, Rémi, Nassim, Eyad and Ahmad are the reporters in WAR REPORTER, as the film follows them on their perilous journey starting from Tunisia through Egypt, Libya and Syria.
- DirectorJaime Otero RomaniA Common Enemy is a political documentary thriller about the first elections in Tunisia after the Arab Spring Revolutions, seen through the eyes of the protagonists of the revolution.
- DirectorKaouther Ben HaniaStarsMohamed Slim BouchihaJallel DridiMoufida DridiTunisia, before the revolution. A man on a motorbike, razor blade in hand, prowls the streets of Tunis slashing women's buttocks. They call him The Challat, aka "The Blade", and the mere mention of his name provokes fascination and terror. Is he a lone criminal, an urban legend, or could he be the creation of a political group or religious fanatics? 10 years later, in the aftermath of the Arab Spring, a stubborn young female director sets out on an investigation to unravel the mystery and discover the true Challat of Tunis...
- DirectorPeter SnowdonThe Uprising shows us the Arab revolutions from the inside. It is a multi- camera, first-person account of that fragile, irreplaceable moment when life ceases to be a prison, and everything becomes possible again.
- DirectorWalid TayaaStarsDorra BouzidPortrait 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.
- DirectorChristophe CotteretOn January 14, 2011, four weeks of national wide uprisings throughout Tunisia resulted in the overthrow of dictator Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali after 23 years of unchallenged rule. But, as unexpected and dazzling as it may have appeared to the eyes of the whole world, the Tunisian revolution is part of a much larger story. Democracy Zero Year retraces the scenes of three years of struggle, which range from the first revolts in the mining basin of Gafsa in January 2008 until the first free elections in October 20112.
- DirectorHinde BoujemaaStarsAida KaabiThrough the hubbub of a revolution, "It was better tomorrow" follows Aida, a Tunisian woman who has to rebuild her entire life and who does not wish to look backwards. She spends her time moving from one poor neighborhood to another. Driven by the will to find a roof over her head and for her children, she takes no notice of the historical events taking place around her. Her only goal is to find a way out and she is convinced that the revolution is a blessing. "It was better tomorrow" shows the atypical journey of this brazen and bold woman in the intense interval of a country's revolution.
- DirectorYoussef ChebbiIsmaëlAlaeddine SlimAfter the insurrection erupted in Libya in the spring of 2012, more than a million people flocked to neighboring Tunisia in search of a safe haven from the escalating violence. When a massive refugee camp was hastily constructed near the Ras Jdir border checkpoint in Tunisia, a trio of filmmakers carried their cameras in and began filming with no agenda. This on-the-fly chronicle of the camp's installation, operation, and dismantling captures a postmodern Babel complete with a multinational population of displaced folk, a regime of humanitarian aid workers, and international media that broadcasts its "image" to the world. Visually stunning and refreshingly undramatic, Babylon reveals a rarely seen aspect of the Arab Spring.
- DirectorElyes BaccarROUGE PAROLE is the story of the Tunisian popular revolution, emotionally told by its heroes through both their silence and their clamors. It is the story of Freedom, summoned by History.
- DirectorSami TliliJanuary 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.
- DirectorIsmahane LahmarMy fourteenth is Tunisian people from the Jewish born and raised there, passing by the expatriate, going from south to north Tunisia,how those people lived the 14Th of January 2011. How did they felt when they get informed that the dictator Ben Ali left the country.
- DirectorMohamed ZranDecember 17 was the day on which Mohamed Bouazizi set fire to himself in front of the Governor's seat in Sidi Bouzid, the epicentre of middle Tunisia. Those flames of youth and ideals spread to the Arab countries and so dictatorships, unassailable walls until then, started to crumble down one after the other, like houses of cards. Then, very rapidly, the Islamists will take hold of and confiscate the revolution from the young and the proletarians who have achieved it and invented it on the streets, in public places and even on roofs. Today, the Islamists in power are threatening to shatter the dreams and hopes of a whole generation. They put at risk the achievement of the objectives of this revolution, namely individual liberties, social justice and simply the right to be happy here below... GET OUT shows the genius of simple people who have achieved the first revolution in the Arab world without any support from the Islamists and their kinds among whom Islamic fundamentalists, veiled women adjusting to the spirit of the times and preachers from the Dark Ages are only the tip of the iceberg...
- DirectorAdel BakriThe filmmaker looks back on the revolts that rocked Tunisia between December 2010 and January 2011 and whose hometown, Thala, was one of the bastions, in a documentary that mixes amateur images of events, testimonies and recitations of poets' texts glorifying the spirit of resistance against oppression (Mahmoud Darwish, Abu El Kassem Echabbi, Nazar Kabbani ...).
- DirectorMahmoud Jemni"Colocynth" is a wild plant which fruits give a very bitter pulp. This bitter taste is also the fruit of a language used by people who were born around March, 20, 1956, date of Tunisian Independence. These speeches of people of various age, sex, and ideologies, reveal the ill-treatment they experienced during the period of their detention at both physical and psychological levels. "Coloquinte" explores an inhuman past and aims at stopping the pain and bitterness, and making sure such atrocities will not happen in the future.
- DirectorAbdallah YahyaReflects the fury of life of Tunisian youth and describes the quest of young people who want to move to their dark reality in order to find positive energy. In the neighborhoods of Tunis, a group of young Tunisian rappers seeks to be heard. While these are groups of students who challenge their daily life in a citizen initiative.
- DirectorRidha TliliThe film follows a group of young Tunisian artists who fight against repression through their resistance. They describe their art as "aesthetic terrorism that tries to get people to think and prevent counter-information from spreading.
- DirectorBilel BaliMeets the small community of Tunisian Salsa dancers in the spotlight. They tell their Salsa experience and their addiction to this dance. For some of them, like Faten, 26, Salsa was even a catharsis during a painful divorce trial.
- DirectorSélim GribâaFollows the life of a group of individuals independent of any political party and who participated in the elections of the Tunisian Constituent Assembly in October 2011 to defend their draft constitution under the name "Doustourna". Day after day, the candidates try to convince voters of the relevance of their project with confusing fervor and freshness.
- DirectorSonia ChamkhiStarsBochra Belhaj HmidaSouad AbderrahimRadhia NasraouiThis documentary retraces the mobilization of Tunisian women in taking part in the democratic march of the new Tunisia, in a spirit of continuity and commitment that also pays tribute to the pioneering Tunisian women rights activists.
- StarsAbdelhamid ArkachHicham BouzidiLofti IssaThree college graduates travel through the country in a van, recalling changes after the 2011 Tunisian Revolution, and how it affected some traditional rites and religious beliefs. Stopping at a few places, they hear and exchange views on the Koran, the ways to perfection, Wahhabism and Sufism, and see some folk rites and dances with religious meaning ingrained in the people's culture dating back to the 13th century.
- DirectorNacer KhemirStarsNacer KhemirStoryteller/filmmaker Nacer Khemir sits on chair in the middle of a dimly lit stage and deploys the magic of words to take us into a journey to the imagination.
- DirectorMurad Ben CheikhSuffering from Tunisia's ills, a character in the film says: "This revolution is not the result of destitution, but rather a cry of despair rising from a generation of graduates. It is neither the bread nor the jasmine revolution... Jasmine does not result in death, does not give rise to martyrs. It's the revolution of a people's devotion. We shall never again have any fear for this new Tunisia!" This comment perfectly summarizes Tunisian's frame of mind. That of the youth who made the first revolution of the virtual era, as well as the older people who always defied fear in order to resist the yoke of dictatorship.
- DirectorNadia El FaniIt evokes the report of the Tunisian population to Islam and the aspiration of a whole section of the population to a secular constitution in the context of the overthrow of Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali's dictatorship during the 2011 revolution.
- DirectorRafik OmraniCaptures the story of the first sit-in of the Arab spring, which took place in Tunisia shortly after the departure of [LINK+nm7200284]
- DirectorRidha TliliA forgotten and marginalized region of Tunisia, the spark of the Tunisian Revolution, a region that rebelled against the Beys, the French Colonization, the Bourguiba system and then that of Ben Ali. The natives of this region still have a Bedouin heritage of resistance, Nomadism and rebellion.
- DirectorIssam SaidiHabib JOUINI is part of a minority of black musicians of STAMBALI. With his peers, he is doing everything to make this kind of music that might get lost in the maze of globalization survive. He never fails to associate his thirteen year old son in everything he does. Habib JOUINI is torn between his love for Tunis, his hometown, and his need to go in search of his black African roots.
- DirectorWalid TayaaA documentary about the disciples and the brotherhood of the Issaouia of Tunis, it brings to light the Sufi emotion and fervor.
- DirectorJamel MokniAn investigation about Muslim women's sexuality in Tunisia, including virginity prior to wedding.
- DirectorHichem Ben AmmarStarsBacem Anas RomdhaniIn a popular suburb of Tunis, a fanfare trombonist dreamed that his son, Anès, would become a great musician. Appropriating the father's dream, the child has developed extraordinary skills in the practice of the violin. He won several competitions and finally gained access to London's prestigious Yehudi Menuhin School. The film traces the stages of this extraordinary journey, the obstacles that Anès encounters, his evolution during his exile in Europe.
- DirectorSonia ChamkhiStarsSalah FarzitHedi DoniaAbdelkrim BenzartiThe journey of Mezoued artists, sheds light on the musical and social components of an entire section of Tunisian heritage, but above all a film that sings and dances, celebrates joy and popular talent and sows a few seeds of collective memory.
- DirectorFethi SaidiAugust 22, 2008, a boat leaves Libya headed towards Italy. On board are Mohamed, a Tunisian, and 350 others wanting to immigrate illegally. After 36 hours on board, they arrive at the island of Lampedusa. A new life starts for Mohamed.
- DirectorAdel BakriA six-day trip to meet a poet, Abdel Jabbar El Ech. Through his enlightened poetry, he dreamed of a little girl: Joullanar, who goes through times and spaces to reach us. She fights against the culture of death, against regression and the civic decline in fighting the thought of death with the will of life. A journey through grueling paths to try to understand the woman and work for her emancipation, through poetry, form of nobility.
- DirectorMohamed ZranFrom the reality of a medium-sized city like Zarsis, the profound changes and transformations that societies in the South are experiencing as a result of many endogenous factors. exogenous. Our approach consists in showing, through a portrait gallery, that these mutations are experienced as a face-to-face encounter between tradition and modernity, between those who, while open to dialogue with the Other, remain jealously attached to their local identity and cultural roots; and those who insist on keeping their faces focused exclusively on modernity or on the contrary on fundamentalist fantasies, hence the temptations for illegal emigration, Islamist indoctrination and desperate suicidal reactions.
- DirectorLassaad OueslatiIn the 1940s and 1950s and during the French colonization of Tunisia, a woman from an Italian Jewish family converted to Islam and married at the time in the right arm of activist Salah Ben Youssef. will later oppose the leader Habib Bourguiba. The woman ESTER (who will become HÉDIA) tells her story via an exciting journey, witness to several events and which ends in a conflict with her son Mohamed David Soninno who is in continuous search for his Jewish origins .
- DirectorNadia El FaniCentered on the filmmaker's father (a member of the Tunisian Communist Party), while it traces the portrait of progressive activists engaged in post-independence Tunisia and asks a question of their heritage.
- DirectorMurad Ben CheikhA projection towards antiquity, to go back to the origins of the alphabet, to discover the supports of ancient writings, to find Esculape, the divinity of medicine in Greece and his alter ego Eshmoun in Carthage, Dionysos, the god of wine and theater in Athens and its alter ego Bacchus in Rome, see Athenaeum and introduce us to the centuries-old tradition of the olive tree and oil...? To see closely life in the ancient Mediterranean in Carthage, Rome, Athens or Alexandria, we realize that several details of everyday life hardly differed from what we live today.
- DirectorKamel LaaridhiAt the dawn of the twenty-first century, a man named Gharsallah dies and is buried in his mausoleum in a small village, Dhibet, in central Tunisia. The film tries to transmit fragments of lives marked by Gharsallah: the saint, the unjust, the mad, the possessed. This is the story of a lonely man who permeated everyone around him, even in the dream.