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- DirectorMohamed Ben AttiaStarsMouna NoureddineKarim BrahamYoussef LoussaiefOver three periods of her life, a grandmother keeps repeating to her grandson the same apparently trivial story.
- DirectorYoussef ChebbiStarsBilel BrikiHelmi DridiMohamed GrayaâIt's a dark night. Lost on a beach in the middle of nowhere, Mehdi and Nito, two smugglers, are preparing to conclude a deal with the Albanian Mafia. Human trafficking. The situation escalates when Mehdi discovers that his little brother, Mouja, is candidate for travel. Ignoring the true nature of the transaction, the young man dreams of Europe and fortune. Mehdi will do everything to save his brother from the clutches of the underworld ...
- DirectorSarra AbidiStarsSondos BelhassenMoez MrabetTaoufik AyebA forty year old writer lives in an apartment alone with her cat for only company. Solitude and poverty have led her to feel that life has no importance.
- DirectorNajwa SlamaStarsAnissa DaoudSaoussen MaalejJawhar BastiSkander, a young student has a relationship with his neighbor Lilia, a dynamic, modern girl who loves life. His sister Zeineb is traditional and conservative. Everything opposes the two sisters: for Zeineb, veil and prayer; for Lilia, fashionable clips and party. Until the day a marriage proposal falls. The two sisters then find themselves on the same ground: the defense of their freedom of women in the face of conservative hypocrisy.
- DirectorMeriem RiveillStarsEmel MathlouthiSelma BaccarRaouf Ben AmorAlong a solitary vigil of Ramadhan, Leila, an eighteen-year-old girl, will be confronted with her own demons and her body will push her to remember what she had experienced to finally free her speech.
- DirectorAmine ChiboubStarsMohamed Ali NahdiHédi (35), moves into an old apartment where he makes a mysterious discovery that will radically change his life.
- DirectorWalid TayaaStarsSondos BelhassenNobiha Ben MiledDalenda AbdouHayet (40) is a widow whose 20 year-old son has left for Canada. She works as an telephone operator at a French call center located in Tunis.
- DirectorMehdi BarsaouiStarsAmine NasraChekra RammehNour ZitouniA 23-year-old man is seriously injured in a car accident and falls into a coma. Journey to the end of the subconscious where reality and imagination are telescoping. But how far?
- DirectorWalid MattarStarsFerouk BoufedenKhaled BouzidLotfi ChakrounJanuary 2009, suburbs of Tunis, four friends spend all their time in a neighbor pub, football games first, then war images broadcasts by the little TV screen capture their attention and fill their boredom, indifferently.
- DirectorMalik AmaraStarsJamel SassiWajiha JendoubiFatma BaazaouiBadly treated and submissive to his to a monstrous wife, Mr. Radhi leads a resigned life until the day his wife accidentally falls from the second floor.
- DirectorKhedija LemkecherStarsMohamed Ali Ben JemaaCarolyn ChelbyAbdelmajid LakhalIt's New Year's Eve. Karim passes by a park and sees the silhouette of Frida, a young woman standing under a tree. He stops and offers to drive her home. Seeing her refrigerated, he offers her his coat and then invites her to accompany him to an evening. After the party, they find themselves outside her house. He sees her go, engraving the steps and putting on the coat. The next day, he goes to her house and finds an old man there, to whom he explains the reasons for his coming. The old man stares at him and smiling asks him to follow him to take him to see Frida .
- DirectorMehdi HmiliStarsWalid AyedMoufida FedhilaYoussef HamidIt is midnight in Tunis, the fragile fate of a couple falling apart. Malek, a poet without inspiration, meets up with his wife, a theater actress who acts out their life as on a stage.
- DirectorSadri JemailStarsOns BahriNadia BoussettaManel TouibiA patient in a clinic dies while waiting for help that doesn't come. Dead, but free at last, he goes through the clinic discovering the place where he spent his last days.
- DirectorLeyla BouzidStarsInès GaritCharles PoitevinBouraouïa MarzoukUnited by love, Farah the young Tunisian immigrant and Ludovic the French citizen, face a dilemma that disturbs their union when their marriage is required for the legal papers for Farah.
- DirectorShiraz FradiStarsAnissa Daoud7-year-old Nada lives with her brother Hatem and her mother, asks herself questions about her sexuality and wonders about how children are made.
- DirectorMohamed Ben SmaïlA young woman comes back after fifteen years of exile in her homeland. In the abandoned family farmhouse, she discovers hundreds of wooden urns built by her grandfather, a woodworker, for the independence of Arab countries, hoping for democracy to flourish . She finds a letter in which her grandfather tells her his intentions and how he sent them to each of these countries. As they were all rejected, he asks her to do the best with all those boxes...
- DirectorFaten HafnaouiStarsJamel MadaniChekra RammehSarra, a war reporter and photographer abroad, is pursued by two men who want to recover documents which should not be published. She takes refuge in the house of her childhood where she meets her friend Khantouch, a former journalist.
- DirectorBahri Ben YahmedStarsMohamed Ali MadaniAmine (40) lives alone with his old mother who is ill and dying. He takes care of her every day. He lives in the anguish of losing her.
- DirectorMohamed Ikbel Chakchem7-year-old Khaled comes from the city of Tozeur in the Sahara. He is a lively and adventurous boy, very different from his neighborhood friends. He is obsessed with one thing: to find the oasis in his town.
- DirectorMohamed Ali NahdiStarsNader AyacheMohamed Ali Ben JemaaSabrine BourguibaThe story of a gang of eight teenagers, four girls and four boys, from the wealthiest circles in the Tunisian capital. Nassim, the main character, the son of a wealthy Tunisian family, is having a hard time with the separation from his parents. Alcohol and drugs become a temptation.
- DirectorFaten HafnaouiStarsSouhir Ben AmaraMr. Hamda, the director, is in a hurry to hand over the tape for a very special screening. Amel, the editor, does everything to save this project from the hands of the censors.
- DirectorAmenallah GharbiStarsOuerghi ChedlyMohamed GhrabAfter completing his military service, Esghayer returns to his native village. But to his surprise, he finds him plunged into chaos following large floods. Esghayer searches for his father amidst the crowds and ruins but cannot find him. However, he learns that his father has taken refuge in a shelter on the top of a nearby mountain. Esghayer then begins an initiatory journey in the mountains, wandering on the way to the shelter.
- DirectorAli HassounaA meeting at night between an old man and a young man. They will spend a night unlike any other in downtown Tunis.
- DirectorMoncef Ben MradStarsLotfi DziriMohamed KoukaJamel MadaniMoving between the real, the atrocious and the imaginary, this film tells the story of the assassination of an Algerian teacher.
- DirectorHomeida BehiStarsAziza GorgiAbderrazek HammamiSarah returns to Tunisia after being away for a few months. Her grandfather is ill and his health has deteriorated since her last visit.
- DirectorInès MarzoukA young smoker sees with the same indifference every time he opens a pack of cigarettes, the image of a man in intensive care.
- DirectorMohamed Hassan AbdelghaniRicha is a young boy who loves football and cleans windshields. He loses his squeegee while working on the street.
- DirectorAbdelhamid BouchnakStarsMohamed Salah BaraketNejib Ben KhalfallahAn old man is thrown out of a warehouse, and his face is wounded. He walks in the streets of the city and finds many people and situations that get his attention.
- DirectorRidha TliliStarsAfef Ben MahmoudNasreddine ShiliA young woman gets rid of her baby leaving it on a ferry boat She spends the day on the dock hoping a passenger will find him. At the same time, a man is looking for her.
- DirectorAlaeddine SlimStarsFethi AkkariAs he is walking back home after his team has lost a game, a football fan meets a stray dog. Ali will spend several hours with the dog wandering through a freezing cold Tunis.
- DirectorNasreddine ShiliStarsAtef Ben HassineFatma Ben SaïdaneLamine NahdiThe imam of the mosque in the village of Chak Wak has died. The heads of the village have decided to organize a contest to recruit a new one.
- DirectorWalid TayaaStarsHakim BoumsaoudiSalwa, a young Tunisian student, falls in love with Ahmadou, a Burkinabese student at the same university. Fearing a racist reaction from his family, Salwa presents Ahmadou as a footballer with a bright future. Out of opportunism, the father and the brother welcomed the young African with enthusiasm. The scheme failed, but the love of the two lovers will triumph over all obstacles.
- DirectorNasreddine ShiliStarsHosni AkrmiNoureddine AyariJaafar GuesmiOn the outskirts of the city, Youssef a sixteen years old boy lives between an alcoholic father who sells junk and a mother whose only hope is to run away with her young lover. The day of Ashura - a feast named « Tamkharit » in Sénégal -, the father gets up and does not find his savings. - The only suspect is Youssef.
- DirectorSonia ChamkhiStarsFatma Ben SaïdaneJamel MadaniA couple in love come from the far countryside to the city, where fate deals them a bitter blow by separating them.
- DirectorMohamed Ali NahdiStarsSeif ManaiNaïma El JeniAhmed LandolsiSami El Pak, a normal unemployed young Tunisian man, who spends his days roaming around with his friends, until one day he gets mixed up in serious troubles that get him arrested.
- DirectorNouri BouzidStarsMohamed Ali BoumnijelLotfi AbdelliFatma Ben SaïdaneFor 11 years old Tarak, football is his life, he dreams of being part of a big football club in the future, but one night, for returning home late after practice, he gets punished hard by his father.
- DirectorMurad Ben CheikhStarsSondos BelhassenAhmed HafieneSlah MsadekThe sole pleasure of Ala, a literature professor and poetry lover, is to share drunkenness with poets. «The Epistle of Mercy», a work about Heaven and Hell, written nearly a thousand years ago, is the subject of the day. In his inebriation, the waitress and bar owner become characters from this work.
- DirectorMalik AmaraStarsFethi AkkariSondos BelhassenDalanda Ben KilaniAn old fisherman dies and resuscitates several times. The man is a despicable character and his resurrections give rise in the first place to general curiosity. But superstition soon takes over in the villagers' hearts. They believe nature should reclaim its rights.
- DirectorNadia TouijerStarsAmine FerchichiMohamed Sassi GhorbaliAmin (8) lives in a working class suburb on the hills of Tunis. He comes to the city to drop off his photo collection book hoping to win a bicycle. Faced with the city, unexpected things occur.
- DirectorRidha TliliA journey from the city to the Sahara crossing seas and mountains to transmit images of Tunisia, where the Bedouin festivities mingle with the songs of the Sahrawis. An endless quest for wandering.
- DirectorAchraf LaamarStarsSlah BelarbiHedi BoukraaJamel MadaniAt dawn on a holiday, after finishing his prayers, he lies in bed and falls asleep. A voice and strange words wake him up. - He begins a discussion about the cowardice of men and the fatality of death.
- DirectorFrancesco SperandeoStarsFabrizio BucciMohamed KoukaMontassar MaagliA Tunisian man of humble origins, Mehdi's memories of his youth are dominated by the heavy wooden door at his beloved's father's house, closing in his face, symbolizing his separation from her. His heart scarred, Mehdi went to Europe to try and make something of himself. Returning, older, wiser and wealthier, he decides to achieve closure on his traumatic past by confronting and destroying the door, in a bid to free himself of its awful shadow on his heart. But the door proves resistant to Mehdi's increasingly desperate attempts to destroy it. A meditative and profound parable on the redemptive powers of the human spirit.
- DirectorBahri Ben YahmedStarsMohaed Said ArrakSlah MsadekAmira Rezgui13 year-old boy Lazher has had glittering hopes ever since he started his first year high school. He spends all his vacations working so that he can buy the latest fashionable sneakers.
- DirectorFathi DoghriStarsWafa AmmariHatem BelakhalRaya BouallegWithout a warning or goodbye, Rym leaves her two friends, Azza and Nadia, overwhelmed by her sudden and mysterious disappearance.
- DirectorSamy ElhajStarsSeifedine BouchakourFares KhiariFoued LitaiemIn the compound of a Tunisian secondary school, Salwa got her boy-friend mention love words in her memory book before joining her fellows to hoist the flag. It is the examination day. In the room of composition, Hatem who is sitting behind Nébil, the best student of the class is exited and seeks for help. Thanks to a signal from Faycel, he can see a crib on the floor, nearby Nébil; Hatem thought it was for him, but he cannot grasp it with his foot.
- DirectorMohamed AjbouniStarsLotfi AbdelliAchraf BoudabousMohamed GrayaâSomewhere, in a Caféshop, a man comes up to a woman and asks her for a lighter. She says, « Have we met before? » He answers, « It seems we have. » A short-lived relationship begins between the two of them; a relationship mixing love, reunion and separation. It's their story, a special story. It's also a bit our story, too.
- DirectorRidha TliliA man discovers that he has been declared dead according to official records. He looks for a sign, evidence of life or of death.
- DirectorMadih BelaïdStarsAmira RezguiKamel, 30, receives an unexpected call from a woman he's never met. He begins a game of seduction with her and doesn't hesitate to pass himself off as someone he's not.
- DirectorFarès NaânaâStarsMohamed Ali Ben JemaaHow can the life of a thirty-something man change suddenly from one day to the next ? Sami, a dynamic manager, works for an insurance company. His daily life is dull until the day he notices a young woman in the street. She becomes his reason of living: he's love-struck.
- DirectorAbdelbar MahmoudIn the middle of nowhere, a strange relationship develops between a lonely man and his goldfish.
- DirectorMohamed Ben BecherNebil, is in his 30s and works for a start-up. His colleague goes on vacation and is replaced by Selma, a former love. Their reunion is full of laughter and regret, memories and fear.
- DirectorMurad Ben CheikhAli Raïs is a pirate armed by the Bey of Tunis. In the year 124, his fleet was arrested by the Marquis of Santa Cruz and he found himself a prisoner, with his six hundred men in Palermo. Italian witnesses will recognize him and denounce him to the Inquisition as a renegade, an indictment which is liable to the stake. Ali seeks to influence the course of the trial, he denies ever having been a Christian and proclaims himself a Muslim, the son of a Muslim. A long game of failure takes place between the court and the prisoner, he alternately tries to speed up or slow down the course of the trial depending on the nature of the information and testimony available to the inquisitors. We believe we are witnessing a modern trial where the shots alternate according to the investigations. This story of Ali Raïs was however not invented, the character is real and all the facts are recorded in a handwritten account of the hearings of the court of the inquisition.
- DirectorKaouther Ben HaniaStarsNourhene El BéjiFatma Ben SaïdaneFawzia Badr7 year-old Mondher lives in a rural village in the south of Tunisia, his sister Mariem is going to get married with Touhami's son and do it.
- DirectorLotfi AchourStarsNadia BoussettaNoomen HamdaMounir, a sleepy and idle night-watchman, finds, on a lonely night, an unusual way of returning to the life of Latifa, of whom he is secretly in love. He will be dragged in spite of himself into the dangerous extremes of passion.
- DirectorMohamed Ben AttiaStarsAbdelmonem ChouayetSaoussen MaalejBetween an unrewarding job and the daily routine visit to the cafe-shop for a water-pipe, K is eager to give up his condition of frustrated and introverted bachelor to seduce Chahra, the girl of his dreams. Through a series of very particular Chinese massages, he manages to shape his personality according to the ever-changing and whimsical demands of his entourage.
- DirectorSarra AbidiStarsAbdelmonem ChouayetBasma El EuchiRihab MejriAhlem and Najwa, two young slums working in a chic pastry shop in Tunis, still dream of Prince Charming as the only way out of poverty. When a rich man gives him an appointment, Ahlem ventures alone in the city center and is in vain. In the streets, in the evening, there is no respect for a woman walking alone.
- DirectorMohamed Kaïs ZaiedStarsJamel MadaniJamel SassiThe end of a war, somewhere in the world. A wounded soldier gets up in a hospital bedroom. Next to him, another disabled soldier. Despite their sufferings and their handicaps, the two men are going to find an unexpected way to figure out what's going on outside.
- DirectorIbrahim LetaïefStarsAfef Ben MahmoudSaoussen MaalejDorra ZarroukNadia, Nour and Naima are three pretty and single young girls. They live in the same building but never met in the lift. One after the other, they hear a mysterious voice coming from the lift, manipulating them, and intruding on their privacy, to bring to light a mystery that involves all of them.
- DirectorWalid TayaaStarsFatma Ben SaïdaneAmira RezguiMrs Bahja, about 60, is an in-patient with leg and arms in plaster. She also has high blood pressure. She can hardly move, and yet has to have her dinner. She never agrees with the nurse on the program she wishes to watch on television. However, she must not lose her temper in any case. Will she manage to keep calm?
- DirectorFarès NaânaâStarsAmel SmaouiAmira RezguiHéla Limam ZghalA single young woman who believes in Prince Charming, will she change her mind?
- DirectorLassaad OueslatiStarsMongi OuerfelliHedi ZoughlamiEvery morning two men meet face to face around a tank. And the fight starts for a few drops of water..
- DirectorLassaad OueslatiA relationship between a child who suffers from the agitated disagreement of his parents and an old man who sinks into physical and psychological decline.