Tunisia | Documentary Feature Films | 2011 - 2015
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- 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.
- 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.
- 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 .
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.