Ahmed Abdelmonaâm Chouayet

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.

It is early summer, exceptionally hot and humid. Malek is living on the ground floor of an old building by the sea, single with no family ties. She is frequently mocked by her friends, Khaled and Azza, because of her passions for Roman mosaics and for spying on her strange neighbors. It is the day- to- day life she has chosen. But when night falls, the wild violent rowing she hears from behind her neighbors' closed door plunges her into fits of anguish. Dark memories resurface. She is sure there is a Monster living in her building. It sends her messages, enters her apartment when she is away. The day she met Jihène, a new tenant, who she immediately befriends, was the day the monster came knocking at her door.

Hakim endures a harsh psychological struggle marked by hallucinations, as he tries to reshape life into a form that no longer belongs to reality.

In 2011 Tunisia, as the Arab Spring awakens, unemployed graduate Aziz, nicknamed Zizou, 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, and become famous.

The film traces 24 hours of the life of an ordinary Tunisian, Mustafa, caught up with the absurdity of the system on the eve of the first free presidential elections.

After losing their restaurant in the capital, Fatma and her husband Ibrahim are forced to run another restaurant in the desert. But in this universe of sand they meet Mokhtar, a wizard capable of digging up treasures that have been buried underground for centuries.

Ahlem and Najwa, two young women from a poor neighbourhood who work in an elegant pastry shop in Tunis, still dream of their Prince Charming as the only way out of poverty. When a rich client asks her to meet him, Ahlem ventures alone into the city centre and waits for him in vain. A woman walking alone in the streets in the evening cannot be respected…

Larger-than-life characters populate director Nejib Belkadhi’s spellbinding combination of film noir and magic realism, which follows a downtrodden orphan — now grown but still saddled with a cruel nickname — who has a reversal of fortune and takes on the thugs who control his ghetto.