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(2010 - 2020) Tunisian Feature Films | Female Lead Role

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  • Hind Sabri in Noura's Dream (2019)

    1. Noura's Dream

    20191h 32m
    6.5 (476)
    With 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.
    DirectorHinde BoujemaaStarsHind SabriLotfi AbdelliHakim Boumsaoudi
  • Golshifteh Farahani in Arab Blues (2019)

    2. Arab Blues

    20191h 28m
    6.3 (4.2K)
    After years abroad in Paris, Selma returns to Tunis with the dream of opening up her own psychotherapy practice.
    DirectorManele LabidiStarsGolshifteh FarahaniMajd MastouraAïsha Ben Miled
  • The Scarecrows (2019)

    3. The Scarecrows

    20191h 38m
    6.4 (83)
    January 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.
    DirectorNouri BouzidStarsNour HajriJoumene LimamAfef Ben Mahmoud
  • The Crow's Siesta (2018)

    4. The Crow's Siesta

    20181h 25m
    7.2 (91)
    After 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.
    DirectorMoez KamounStarsSouhir Ben AmaraAbdelmonem ChouayetFoued Litaiem
  • Whispering Sands (2018)

    5. Whispering Sands

    20181h 35m
    8.4 (56)
    An 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...
    DirectorNacer KhemirStarsDorra ZarroukHichem Rostom
  • Of Skin and Men (2017)

    6. Of Skin and Men

    20171h 45m
    5.0 (262)
    Following 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.
    DirectorMehdi Ben AttiaStarsHafsia HerziRaouf Ben AmorHaythem Achour
  • Mariam Al Ferjani in Beauty and the Dogs (2017)

    7. Beauty and the Dogs

    20171h 40mTV-MA65Metascore
    7.1 (2.9K)
    A college student seeks help after a brutal assault but faces a bureaucratic nightmare when she reveals that her perpetrators are police officers.
    DirectorKaouther Ben HaniaStarsMariam Al FerjaniGhanem ZrelliNoomen Hamda
  • El Jaida (2017)

    8. El Jaida

    20171h 50m
    7.7 (88)
    Eight 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.
    DirectorSelma BaccarStarsWajiha JendoubiSouhir Ben AmaraFatma Ben Saïdane
  • Doria Achour and Anissa Daoud in Burning Hope (2016)

    9. Burning Hope

    20161h 25m
    7.4 (44)
    "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.
    DirectorLotfi AchourStarsCynda AbdenebiDoria AchourRafika Akkari
  • Benzine (2017)

    10. Benzine

    20171h 30m
    7.4 (41)
    In southeastern Tunisia, Salem and Halima spend months waiting for news of their son Ahmed, who has been smuggled overseas to Italy.
    DirectorSarra AbidiStarsSondos BelhassenFatma Ben SaïdaneJamel Chandoul
  • The Flower of Aleppo (2016)

    11. The Flower of Aleppo

    20161h 34m
    5.7 (274)
    A 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.
    DirectorRidha BehiStarsHind SabriHichem RostomBadis Behi
  • Foreign Body (2016)

    12. Foreign Body

    20161h 32m
    6.2 (261)
    After a young Tunisian woman informs on her radical Islamist brother, she arrives illegally in France, finding danger as well as hope.
    DirectorRaja AmariStarsHiam AbbassSarra HannachiSalim Kechiouche
  • Woh! (2016)

    13. Woh!

    20161h 30m
    7.4 (48)
    The 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.
    DirectorIsmahane LahmarStarsMariem Ben ChaâbaneFatma Ben SaïdaneNadia Boussetta
  • Lilia, a Tunisian Girl (2016)

    14. Lilia, a Tunisian Girl

    20161h 24m
    6.6 (24)
    Lilia 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.
    DirectorMohamed ZranStarsSamar MatoussiRaafa AyadiMoez Baatour
  • Ali Jaziri and Yasmine Bouabid in Eclipses (2016)

    15. Eclipses

    2016
    8.8 (14)
    Hind, 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.
    DirectorFadhel JaziriStarsAli JaziriYasmine BouabidMohamed Driss
  • As I Open My Eyes (2015)

    16. As I Open My Eyes

    20151h 42mUnrated74Metascore
    6.7 (1.5K)
    A 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.
    DirectorLeyla BouzidStarsBaya MedhaffarGhalia BenaliMontassar Ayari
  • Narcissus (2015)

    17. Narcissus

    20151h 30m
    7.5 (23)
    While 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.
    DirectorSonia ChamkhiStarsAïcha Ben AhmedGhanem ZrelliJamel Madani
  • The Sea Falling for the Blues (2015)

    18. The Sea Falling for the Blues

    20151h 35m
    9.4 (14)
    A 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.
    DirectorAbdelwaheb BoudenStarsAmira Ben YoussefMehdi Midani
  • Borders of Heaven (2015)

    19. Borders of Heaven

    20151h 23m
    6.8 (106)
    An ordinary family whose life takes a dramatic turn. Between despair, guilt and desire for life, how to reconstruct when you face the unacceptable ?
    DirectorFarès NaânaâStarsLotfi AbdelliAnissa DaoudSophie Ghodhbane
  • Fatma Nasser in Horra (2015)

    20. Horra

    20151h 35m
    7.8 (20)
    Between his fiancee and his passion for a married woman, Karim's vision of life will be transformed.
    DirectorMoez KamounStarsAhmed GasmiFatma NasserJamel Sassi
  • Hidden Beauties (2012)

    21. Hidden Beauties

    20121h 45m
    7.0 (43)
    Two young Tunisian women strive for the same emancipation enjoyed by men.
    DirectorNouri BouzidStarsSouhir Ben AmaraNour MeziouLotfi Abdelli
  • Fethi Haddaoui and Aïcha Ben Ahmed in Thursday Afternoon (2013)

    22. Thursday Afternoon

    20131h 37m
    7.3 (40)
    A new cinematic vision puts the psychological and social disintegration of family relationships under the microscope. The decline of human feelings in front of the tyranny material force and the breakdown of family ties open the door to opportunism and greed in order to acquire more money, causing the killing of human feelings and turns members of one family to enemies.
    DirectorMohamed DamakStarsAïcha Ben AhmedFatma Ben SaïdaneNadia Boussetta
  • Tunisians Stories (2012)

    23. Tunisians Stories

    20121h 50m
    8.6 (31)
    Different stories of Tunisians people that lives in a society bubbling of pride , lust, desire , misery and anger.
    DirectorNada Mezni HafaiedhStarsTaoufik AyebYasmine AzaiezNejib Belhassen
  • Les palmiers blessés (2010)

    24. Les palmiers blessés

    20101h 45m
    9.1 (19)
    Bizerte, 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.
    DirectorAbdellatif Ben AmmarStarsLeïla OuazNeji NejahHassan Kachach
  • 25. Dar Joued

    20101h 20m
    7.8 (10)
    Four women are locked up for disobedience at «Dar Joued». Some will end by becoming submissive, others will refuse to submit.
    DirectorAïda Ben AleyaStarsFaten AleyaHalima BejaouiHanene Ben Chagra

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