Fatima Ben Saïdane

Halfaouine: Boy of the Terraces

Twelve-year-old Noura dangles uncertainly in that difficult netherworld between childhood and adulthood. His growing libido has gotten him banned from the women's baths, where his mother took him when he was younger, but he's not yet old enough to participate in grown-up discussions with the men of his Tunisian village. Noura's only real friend is a troublemaker named Salih -- the village political outcast.

Sweet Smell of Spring

In 2011 Tunisia, as the Arab Spring awakens, unemployed graduate Aziz, nicknamed Zizou (Zied Ayadi), travels from his Saharan village to the big city of Tunis in search of a job. From television aerial installation to political intrigue, this fresh-faced young Candide will learn the ways of the world, fall in love with the ravishing Aicha (Sara Hanachi), and become famous.--Eddie Cockrell, FilmFest DC

A Summer in La Goulette

Summer of 1967. La Goulette, a touristic beach of Tunisia, is the site where three seventeen-year-old girls live: Gigi, Sicilian and Catholic; Meriem, Tunisian and Muslim; Tina, French and Jewish. They would like to have their first sexual experience during that summer, challenging their families. Their fathers, Youssef, Jojo and Giuseppe, are old friends and their friendship will be in crisis because of the girls, while Hadj, an old rich Arab, would like to marry Meriem.

Dicta Shot

In an asylum designed for political opponents to the ruling system, residents are subjected to oppressive practices. The repression is practiced by all the staff, and led by Hazem the director. The resistance is manifested through Nidhal, an activist who has spent his life in jail.

السماء تصيح

On a forgotten road far from the city, Sammy and Lilia find themselves facing a group of gravediggers

Normal

Mouna, a young woman in her twenties, works as a ticket inspector and conductor for a private public transport company. For some time now, she seems to see her boyfriend Omar everywhere, even though he has emigrated illegally without telling her. It turns out that she really is seeing him, as he has been deported. She decides to look for him, finds him and settles the score with him in order to regain her ‘freedom’.

Chak wak

The imam of the village mosque “Chak Wak” is dead. Officials have decided to open a competition to recruit a new Imam with benefits and an attractive salary.

Birth of Civilization

With the help of state of the art special effects, this National Geographic documentary attempts to recreate what civilization looked like during the first 8,000 years that human beings lived on Earth.

Ceux qui rêvent

Three brothers and sisters learn that the land they inherited from their father may be sold. If Latifa, the eldest, and Slim, the youngest, don't really believe in it, too accustomed to unfinished agreements, Nadia, the youngest, thinks that things will be concluded. His hope ends up infecting his siblings and leads them for an evening to dream of a better life.

The Silences of the Palace

The death of a prince brings a young woman back to the palace where she was born into servitude. The lingering legacy is brought into light from behind frosted windows and velvet curtains.

4 O'clock Flowers

Djo, a boxing gym manager in the “Helal” neighborhood near Tunis, is searching for a champion to train in his old gym. He finds Yahia, who shows innate boxing skills, but Yahia is pursuing a different dream: illegal immigration. What will happen next?

Narcissus

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.

Les Zazous de La Vague

In Tunis, Fethi, a pretty face like Brando, and his friend Bannour, naive and shy, are employed in the pastry shop of the Italian Madame Rita. Their only concern is picking up Souad and her cousin Latifa in their convertible to take them for a ride "on the Wave side".

Junun

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

Borderline

Saâdia, a cleaning woman, and Mokhtar, a night watchman at construction sites, meet. It’s the discovery of love, for both of them, in a city that offered them nothing but downfall. Yet they will come to know grace; however, the fall will be painful.

The Sultan of the Medina

A community of people rejected by society live in an abandoned residence located in a "Medina": an old town in Tunisia. Al Bab, a local criminal running the residence's prostitution circle, returns from prison on his wedding day. Fraj, his brother and the town warlock, falls in love with Ramla, his brother's future wife: He is the only man of the residence who has seen her face, as she is kept prisoner in one of the rooms until the wedding night.

Water Rumours

The return of an exiled man, tormented by his past, a lover and a militant. The director, returns to bring up the spirit of The Opera Didon and Aeneas of Purceil that he had to abandon 25 years ago. It is also a chronicle of the daily life and place of the new opera, Sidi Bou Said, after the Tunisian revolution.

Shake it, man!

A fake producer, an armed group, masked bearded under the guise of religion and a corrupt cop in a place that is not precisely specified but whose words originate in one of the countries of the Arab Spring after a revolution benefiting from a situation where everything is allowed and with impunity. Sultan, a shabby little crook has finally found a way to amass a good little bundle of money. His combination is the Star Academy, or rather, his Star Academy has him - He organizes a large cast in order to strip all the budding young stars and, of course, many people are scrambling to participate in this casting Very peculiar. But, Sultan is out of luck. A mysterious group takes the money collected in this evening. The men in the group are not lucky either; they lose money on the way. Chief Hedy, a corrupt policeman, will be on his way to find the money no matter what means to achieve it.

Take My Breath

When Shams’ intersex identity is exposed, the young seamstress’ tranquil life unravels. Engaged in a steamy love triangle and targeted by an obsessive attacker, they escape to the capital city. Taking refuge with their lover’s mystic cousin, they grapple with their complex sense of self. This evocative tale explores the clash between desire and identity.

The Scarecrows

In late 2013, Zina and Djo, both in their twenties, come back to Tunisia from the Syrian front where they were sequestrated and raped. Zina was separated from her two-month-old child and Djo finds out she's pregnant and plunges into mutism and expresses her Syrian horror only in the novel she is writing. Tunisian lawyer, Nadia and Dora, a humanitarian doctor, assist them in their hard and lengthy reconstruction; impeded by the violence of their close circles, the harsh view on the social networks and their angst. Nadia, also Driss' lawyer, a 21-year-old persecuted homosexual who's been banned from all school establishments, asks him to help Zina in the hopes that their stirring meeting will allow them to open their black boxes, to assume themselves and stand up to the unjust society.

Borj Roumi

In the 70s, a communist-leaning movement was outlawed, and its activists were detained. In order to be freed, the authorities asked the detainees to apologize to the president. They declined, but one changes his mind.

Making Of

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

El Naffoura

The journey of three women of different ages and conditions in the midst of the turbulence of the summer of 2013. These three imaginary stories draw their reference from prototypes of more or less known women who participated in the Bardo sit-in, will be treated as a fiction against a backdrop of historical events whose images will be drawn from the archives of this period that marked the short history of Tunisia, after the revolution. Thus highlighting the journey of the three characters and that of a country in full turmoil.

Chronicles of my Village

In 1960, nine-year-old Bachir dreamed of becoming the son of a martyr because he had heard that the children of martyrs would obtain everything after independence. He sets up a whole plan to get rid of a certain François, enemy of his country, while his father, Saddek, abandoned him with his mother and brothers. Through this fiction, the film looks at the life and visions of little Algerians during the War of National Liberation. Karim Traïdia looks back on his own childhood during the Algerian war (1945-1962). On a humorous note, it tells the adventures of a young child and his innocent friends against the backdrop of a raging merciless war.

Ragouj

Youssef, a nobody with tons of debts and nothing in his life, is offered a job by his uncle to oversee the construction of an elementary school in the far away rural town of Ragouj. He learns the good and bad of his new home and its people.

Ken Ya Makanech

A comedy that depicts the situation in Tunisia 3000 years ago when King Satour was in charge. As his son Burghul assumes power when his father is severely ill, Khufash manages to put Burghul in prison to seize power, but Burghul and his friend plan to escape and get revenge.

Clash

The series dives into the backstage world of rap, focusing on the journey from the bottom to the top. It explores diss battles, fierce rivalries between rappers, the pressures of record labels, and the struggle for identity.