Tunisia | Feature Films | 2000 - 2009

A teenager unwittingly reveals a terrible family secret to the new neighbors.

Malik has a lot on his plate when he returns home to Tunisia after living in France. He's processing his father's death, he can't come out to his mother, and his childhood anxieties have resurfaced. But all of Malik's problems seem to fade away when he falls for Bilal, the dreamy houseboy at his mother's bourgeois estate.

Desperate by the refusal of the film commission, Chahine wonders how he will do to find the money necessary to achieve the police comedy he has in mind. He then has the crazy idea to go find him where he is: in the trunk of a bank. Aided by his two accomplices (his producer and his cinematographer), he scripted and directed the burglary, The accomplished heist, the three accomplices, forced to live hidden in an apartment while waiting for things to settle down, will go theatrical revelations .

The 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.

In a very agitated political context, the march for independence from French Colonialism, intellectual patriots, activists and freedom fighters sought to reform and develop the Tunisian Society at that specific time.

Mohammed is a retired factory-worker. He lives alone in the Sonacotra residence for workers. But he is now ill and is being forced to leave the room he has occupied for so many years. Deciding to leave with his dignity, he chooses to return to his homeland, Tunisia, a country he has not seen for years.

Farés 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.

Sélima and Sélim are 20 years old twins. Orphans whose mother died giving birth to them. They live in Tunis with their father Ali, an advocate at the bar of Tunis.

A young prostitute's plan of revenge with the help of one of the men that raped her.

The film forces us to confront a bipolar reality, once dark, once light, a reality too often repressed.

A Tunisian breakdancer falls in with fundamentalists with designs to turn the young man into a suicide bomber.

A recluse in his apartment for months, he is visited by a young girl, to which he can not escape.

It tells the story of a girl who runs away from an arranged marriage on the eve of her wedding to be with her sweetheart.

The small south Tunisian village of Al-Malga (literally "The Shelter") is spurred into action when a series of phone calls from the capital announce the impending visit of a prestigious production team from German television in the region. Consequently, the town's cultural committee decides to give a positive image of the village and the country and creates an artificial veneer, substantially camouflaging the reality. Chaos ensues as the committee's sycophantic chairman, an ardent feminist, and a number of other unusual characters disagree on the best course of action.

The bright future of a beautiful young bride grows increasingly clouded the dissatisfaction of her marriage drives her to addiction and insanity.

The story of a blind dervish Bab'Aziz and his spirited granddaughter, Ishtar, together they wander the desert in search of a great reunion of dervishes that takes place just once every thirty years.

Hedi, a 22-year-old living in a working-class neighborhood, misses his baccalaureate for the third time. At the same time, his father, Hassine, retiring, sees his boss suggest to him to keep his big house in his absence. He accepts despite the protests of his son. And here all the family is moving to a chic neighborhood.

This film tells the tragicomic destiny of three friends. The same age, they are all three of humble origins. The story begins in the 1970s in Nafta and evokes their childhood.

Hamid, a journalist in his late thirties, refuses to marry, his friendship for the photographer Elyès worries his family. He has trouble managing his relationship with Sara, his liberated and independent colleague, the wedding takes place, but Hamid abandons his young wife on the wedding night.

In Tunis, Adel a dreamer florist, falls in love with a pretty woman Dounia a director of a bank branch. To win her love, he uses the language of flowers and delivers her each morning the bouquets under a mysterious admirer.

Police Investigate the theft and theft of archaeological pieces, including a bust of Hannibal, unearthed from the ruins of Carthage. This invaluable piece is loaded on the "Carthage" ferry, to be resold in Europe, but the police who got wind of the case opts for a discreet investigation aboard the ship conducted jointly by an inspector and the archaeologist author of discovery.

A filmmaker who travels to the South of Tunisia for a scout mission for his film project, get stranded in the Sahara.

From 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.

After a few years spent in France and in the West Indies, Jamil comes home as a broken man. He arrives in a bookshop in the center of colonial Tunis for a temporary job as a clerk. He is attracted to Aicha, 15 years older woman and the mother of the book shop owner Tarak.