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- Between light and darkness stands Olfa, a Tunisian woman and the mother of four daughters. One day, her two older daughters disappear. Filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania invites professional actresses to fill in their absence.
- His own body turned into a living work of art and promptly exhibited in a museum, Sam, a Syrian refugee, will soon realize to have sold away more than just his skin.
- Noura struggles to reconcile two worlds, Muslim women and men, while also dealing with his own sexuality.
- 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.
- A college student seeks help after a brutal assault but faces a bureaucratic nightmare when she reveals that her perpetrators are police officers.
- Ali is barely making a living selling contraband gas. The young Tunisian all of a sudden finds himself in charge of his two sisters after his father's death.
- When a woman shelters a group of girls from suffering female genital mutilation, she starts a conflict that tears her village apart.
- As she grows up, Alia (the daughter of housemaid Khedija) learns the secrets of the peaceful palace where she and her mother live.
- 11 year old Aziz needs a liver transplant after being seriously injured during a terrorist ambush while on holiday in 2011. At the hospital a family secret will be revealed.
- Once upon a time, like 3000 years ago, a beloved King named Satour falls to illness, where his bastard son Bourghel finds himself in charge of the kingdom.
- Mohamed is deeply shaken when his oldest son Malik returns home after a long journey with a mysterious new wife.
- In the ensuing days before his wedding bridegroom Hachemi faces both the anxieties of the future and the shadows of the past. His best friend, Farfat, is the topic of street graffiti and local gossip, which calls his manhood into question. This ripples out to affect Hachemi for, unbeknownst to anyone, as apprenticed youths they were molested by Ameur, the local carpenter. Farfat is banished from his father's home and the shared secret between the two friends threatens to undo more than just the wedding, but their very lives.
- As a British ornithologist arrives in Sicily to research the climate change effects on migration, he witnesses a series of dramatic events. Relinquishing his role of a detached observer will be more challenging than it seems.
- Abu Laila used to be a judge, but because the government doesn't have the means to renew his assignment he is forced to be a taxi driver. On the day his daughter Laila becomes seven years old his wife insists that he'll be at home early and bring her a present and a cake. Abu Laila's has nothing else on his mind then completing this mission. But the daily life in Palestine has other plans.
- Tunisia, before the revolution. A man on a motorbike, razor blade in hand, prowls the streets of Tunis slashing women's buttocks. They call him The Challat, aka "The Blade", and the mere mention of his name provokes fascination and terror. Is he a lone criminal, an urban legend, or could he be the creation of a political group or religious fanatics? 10 years later, in the aftermath of the Arab Spring, a stubborn young female director sets out on an investigation to unravel the mystery and discover the true Challat of Tunis...
- A film about the absurdity of not accepting the other despite the difference.
- Done in the style of an African folk tale, this film, a collaboration between European and African countries, is said to be among the most elaborate, high tech film in African film. Exquisitely photographed and filled with archetypal figures to create a poetic look at nature's revenge against those who would exploit her. It is set in the forest village of Amanha Lundju, a place where the birth of children is celebrated by the planting of a tree. The trees are considered spiritual twins. But for every tree planted, the rapacious state destroys many more for firewood and lumber.
- Explores how far one can go to break free from their past.
- An extraordinary story of a young woman raised in Switzerland who travels back to Algeria, her birthplace, to meet and kill her natural mother, who abandoned her shortly after birth. Along the way, she is exposed to the brutality of desert life and, in particular, the abuses that men heap upon women in fundamentalist, third world countries. Birth, death and life in general, have little meaning as people struggle for survival. The scenery is stark but at the same time beautiful and the faces of the characters that she meet are marvelous. The film was made in Tunisia, as it does not cast a particularly good light on Algerian men and probably could not have gotten permission to be filmed in Algeria where Sharia is the law of the land.
- Alex Randal (Stephen Moyer), a young reporter on the make, decides, without knowing anything about the situation, to go to Beirut on October 23, 1983, when he hears a radio report about suicide trucks exploding on both an American base and a French base, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of soldiers. Seduced by a gifted and enigmatic photographer, Julia Muller (Anne Parillaud), Randal finds a capitol torn by civil war, where political, financial and strategic interests intertwine.
- An ordinary family whose life takes a dramatic turn. Between despair, guilt and desire for life, how to reconstruct when you face the unacceptable ?
- On January 14, 2011, four weeks of national wide uprisings throughout Tunisia resulted in the overthrow of dictator Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali after 23 years of unchallenged rule. But, as unexpected and dazzling as it may have appeared to the eyes of the whole world, the Tunisian revolution is part of a much larger story. Democracy Zero Year retraces the scenes of three years of struggle, which range from the first revolts in the mining basin of Gafsa in January 2008 until the first free elections in October 20112.
- January 5, 2008, a sit-in organized by young unemployed in the city of Redeyef in the southwest of Tunisia, marked the beginning of a civil disobedience movement, which lasted six months. Their names are: Adnène, Bechir, Leila, Jemaa, Haroun, Moudhafer, Adel, they were teachers, unemployed or desperate young people. They claimed their rights to wealth, dignity and justice. It happened in the mining area, the stronghold of phosphate ore where the equation is simple and absurd: the phosphate is produced by the region that suffers the consequences (environmental and other) without benefit. 4 years later, what has remained of this human epic? Wounded souls, broken destinies, open wounds but also pride and dignity.
- 2009. Tunisian Nine-year-old Zaineb lost her father. Her mother will rebuild her life with a man in Canada. But she wants nothing to do with this new country, because Zaineb has decided to hate the snow.
- Sir Edward Lamb, famous publisher, delights in reading the latest novel by his old friend Nicolas Fabry. The elegant English aristocrat learns with dismay that the Frenchy is responsible for the death of the one he loved in Tunisia.
- The Gulf War, from five different Arab filmmakers point of view. In their respective works and itineraries, they share the same concern for authenticity.
- Youssef Soltane, a 45-year-old Tunisian intellectual, is the product of a generation that lived the era of euphoria and great ideologies in the sixties, and their subsequent failure. He was incarcerated and tortured for his political opinions. Furthermore, his relationship with Zineb, a young, beautiful bourgeois, only brings him more trouble. During one long winter night, Youssef wanders in search of an emotional haven, prey to all the questions that flood his memory.
- A feud between two families over a piece of land that hides secrets that remain hidden inside, the strong temptation of possession it, makes both families of Kaderi and Ghanem clash and results to an enmity between the children after the union and friendship of their parents. But the new generation of both families refuse to be thrown into this inherited conflict and chose love and unity over hatred and division, by defying their unfair family dictations and collaborate on finding the secret that hides behind their families rivalry .
- Locked in a room until the release of her fiance from prison, a young woman escapes with the help of his brother.
- Amina a married Muslim woman living in Tunis with her two daughters. Even though she is allowed certain freedoms as a Muslim woman this is curtailed when she meets her old friend from school Aida.
- Suffering from Tunisia's ills, a character in the film says: "This revolution is not the result of destitution, but rather a cry of despair rising from a generation of graduates. It is neither the bread nor the jasmine revolution... Jasmine does not result in death, does not give rise to martyrs. It's the revolution of a people's devotion. We shall never again have any fear for this new Tunisia!" This comment perfectly summarizes Tunisian's frame of mind. That of the youth who made the first revolution of the virtual era, as well as the older people who always defied fear in order to resist the yoke of dictatorship.
- A 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?
- Through the hubbub of a revolution, "It was better tomorrow" follows Aida, a Tunisian woman who has to rebuild her entire life and who does not wish to look backwards. She spends her time moving from one poor neighborhood to another. Driven by the will to find a roof over her head and for her children, she takes no notice of the historical events taking place around her. Her only goal is to find a way out and she is convinced that the revolution is a blessing. "It was better tomorrow" shows the atypical journey of this brazen and bold woman in the intense interval of a country's revolution.
- Amine (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.
- A team of intrepid adventurers led by a ten year old boy crosses the meanders of time aboard an enchanted ship to discover the key moments of the ancient Mediterranean.
- The Arab Summit, May 2004, Tunis in turmoil, In this frenzied and burlesque atmosphere, characters intersect without ever really meeting, striving to solve their personal problems.
- In the East of Algeria, there is a family preparing for the important Islamic feast Eid-el-Kabir. The father is very sick and his only wish is that his daughter, Hanifa, should get married before he dies. Hanifa decides for her true love regardless the consequences . The movie also shows the difficult times Algeria is going through.
- For 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.
- In January 2009, while Israel is bombarding Gaza, Rashid Masharawi is in Baghdad making a film on young children forced to work in post-war Iraq. Contrasting their lives with those of similarly burdened Gazan children, the film presents a world in which everyone, no matter how young, has to struggle to survive. As a Palestinian and Gazan, with extensive personal experience of life in refugee camps, Masharawi's deep sense of identification with the children's traumas makes for a deeply affecting and authoritative document of local situation.
- Along 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.
- A couple on their way to a long-awaited film preview, they are in their car when suddenly a loud noise arises.
- Baba Azizi is an old man, who has not been spared by illness. Passed around by his adult children, he finds himself at his daughter's for a couple of days. An ordeal is expected, but things will not go as he imagines.
- Two Palestinian brothers plan on immigrating to Canada after the Israeli air force bombs their family home. Milad (Stereo) used to be a wedding singer but because his wife dies in the attack he doesn't want to live in palestine or sing anymore. The bombing also leaves his brother Samy mute and deaf. The two set about earning money for their travel to Canada by buying a secondhand sound system that they rent out for events in Ramallah.
- Fares, a young 8-year-old boy crosses on his way to school a stray dog. A beautiful friendship is born between the two until the day Farés decides to bring the dog at home.
- Adapted from the series Viva Carthago (2011), an intrepid adventurous team, guided by a 10 years old boy, goes to discover the key moments of the ancient Mediterranean history.
- A projection towards antiquity, to go back to the origins of the alphabet, to discover the supports of ancient writings, to find Esculape, the divinity of medicine in Greece and his alter ego Eshmoun in Carthage, Dionysos, the god of wine and theater in Athens and its alter ego Bacchus in Rome, see Athenaeum and introduce us to the centuries-old tradition of the olive tree and oil...? To see closely life in the ancient Mediterranean in Carthage, Rome, Athens or Alexandria, we realize that several details of everyday life hardly differed from what we live today.
- Three college graduates travel through the country in a van, recalling changes after the 2011 Tunisian Revolution, and how it affected some traditional rites and religious beliefs. Stopping at a few places, they hear and exchange views on the Koran, the ways to perfection, Wahhabism and Sufism, and see some folk rites and dances with religious meaning ingrained in the people's culture dating back to the 13th century.