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- «Kemtiyu» depicts Cheikh Anta Diop, eminent researcher with an insatiable thirst for knowledge, but also an enlightened political figure. This film tells the struggle of a man who fought his entire life for truth and justice in order to restore Africa's historical consciousness and dignity.
- A record of a few hours of observations from the life of a young woman around whom nothing interesting happens. After all, what could happen in such a commonplace, everyday life? - Nothing...
- Best friends Tevo (Richie Tevin) and Zizuke (Arnold Aganze) have just finished their university course in social sciences. Zizuke has a job as a waiter at a local bar, The Pearl (a bar on Jinja Main Street), and Tevo is pursuing his passion for photography. After being given a camera by Martha (Diane Vuletich), his new muzungu girlfriend, Tevo starts to look for ways he can make money from his work. And a chance meeting with Elizabeth (Poppy Spowage), a tourist who has come to see Gorillas in Uganda, provides him with just the answer. Tevo's photography swiftly becomes a pictorial N.G.O project that supports women and girls education in Masese a slum in Jinja. Zizuke joins him on his mission to set up a legitimate NGO but they quickly face some very real obstacles. In desperation, the boys call on successful NGO owner Mr. Heineken (Prince Okuyu), who soon becomes their mentor and shares his wisdom with them. The plan works and the funding comes through - giving them the care-free party lifestyle and fancy clothes they'd been craving. They quickly forget about the people of the Masese slum. The story son turns around when they find out that Anthony (David Cecil), a filmmaker/minister, is being sent to Uganda on behalf of their American donors to document the impact of the NGO on the lives of women and children of the Masese slum. Despite their best efforts to construct 'stories of change' and cover up their lies, they soon realize Anthony is just like them.
- In the heart of Ouagadougou, a granite quarry where nearly 2,500 people, adults and children, work in Dantean conditions, on the margins of a society that refuses to see them. But in 2014, the revolution went through this and blew on the minds, a wind of emancipation and hope. A certain audacity..
- The story of three women in a state called Free State relates around a man sentenced to death. One woman arrives from Europe to support the condemned; another is the condemned man's wife, who runs a Bed and Breakfast next to the prison; and the last one teaches French classes in the prison.
- A fox is abandoned at the edge of a forest. He explores it and at the same time he explores his limitations and himself. What he finds there changes him forever. This is a movie about the wild side of each and every creature. The balance between 'civilisation' and 'nature'. Selfdiscovery and the transposition of bodies.
- On a sidewalk in downtown Antananarivo lives a community of women charcoal burners. They are accused of dirtying the city, discriminated against, constantly threatened with expulsion, but they keep up their fight to live lives of dignity. They are the only people who supply the charcoal so vital for the Malagasies' daily needs.
- Very late one night, we knock on Magda's door. It is her neighbor whom she is madly in love who comes to seek refuge. She hosts it, and hopes. But, all she has to live with this man is maybe to have him in the next room, only, for one night.
- Aicha is a mother of four children. The eldest is epileptic and suffers from a mental dysfunction. From the moment she's awake, Aicha dedicates her time to take care of him. We discover in this documentary a glimpse of their everyday lives, while exploring some moments from the past.
- Around a small caravan, people from different backgrounds meet and exchange points of view on the current and future Tunisian society. A male dancer, a female dancer, a graffiti artist and a rapper will be the characters that embody this new post Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali society.
- Ghzela is seventy years old and comes from Kef, both exuberant and a Sufi, he follows his own path freely, unconstrained by taboos or social dogmas. His heart throbs with love and spirituality but his rebellious body craves dance and music.
- In 2013, three years before his jail sentence, Fakhri El Ghezal sets out with his mobile on an odyssey through the trivia of everyday life. In this intimate journal he films his wandering and solitude, always setting out and never arriving anywhere. He talks about death, mourning and isolation.
- Two students, Ghada and Nadra, share a flat. One day in the town they fancy a boy. Since they tell each other everything, each sings the praises of the boy she has met, showing him off to best advantage. But neither girl knows they are talking about the same boy.
- President Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali rules Tunisia and Adel is partying with friends. His terrified wife phones to say that the police are at their door. Adel, who has subversive ideas, panics, will he be arrested? Driving home he is assailed by fear and dark thoughts go through his mind.
- Tells the personal story of the director who grew up in Tunisia and who has been exiled since his 18's. The film is an exploration through the story of three people of the relation to oneself and to each others within the complex context of immigration and exile.
- At the foot of Mount Chambi, a village, Garat Agueb. Forced to work to support their families or to help their parents, young girls and women prefer weaving Esparto grass rather than working in factories. In doing so, they hope to perpetuate a local craft they inherited from their ancestors.
- Diary of a filmmaker who lived his early years under Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali and dreamed along with a youth movement of a better Tunisia. Portrait of a country between disappointment of the past, agitation of the present and anxiety about the future.
- Belgacem, 35 and Naouel, 28, a blind couple are united by the strength of their love beyond their disability. Each day, they struggle to raise with dignity and joy their children Hamza and Melek despite the difficult conditions in which they live.
- In a narrow and almost empty room, a man begins his day. His gestures, precise and mechanical, testify of a deep routine without any other indication. The man begins the reading of a book and takes us deep into the confusion between the fiction of the book and his own reality. Throughout the pages, the truth comes to light.
- The meeting of a child and a sniper during the Tunisian revolution.
- A family of four generations in their house in the Lebanese mountains. A dog. What does it mean to live in war that constantly changes features and never ends? What does it mean to care for a family in such a situation? Which values do you teach your children? What is society in a civil war? Or the nation?
- 2008, student in Spain, Belhassen Handous begins to film his daily life with a mobile phone. His foreign student life in Europe, his return to Tunisia, the young people who dream of elsewhere from both sides of the Mediterranean, the revolution.
- For eleven years Radia has suffered from kidney failure. She is waiting for a transplant. One day she is called urgently to hospital - a donor has just died. But then she has to undergo some compatibility tests and, worse, is told that she is not the only one to have been summoned.
- 15-year-old Samah lives with her family in terrible conditions in a forest in north-western Tunisia. Suffering from her wretched financial situation, she takes her first steps in a life that will be identical to that of her mother and her forebears.
- The film shows the worldview and enthusiasm of these young musicians of 13-18, whose passion for music sets them apart. They speak of their dreams, their daily lives, their passions and their native land that is trying to find a way forward. The buildings of the famous Lycée Bourguiba and the music of the Tunisian Youth Orchestra constitute the background.
- When he awakes six feet underground in a coffin with a bottle of whiskey, a torch and a Talkie-Walkie, Youssef realizes it's a joke. But the hours pass and nobody comes to find him. His friends, the only people who knew where he is, have all died in a road accident.
- El Saida Manoubia, Tunisian iconic figure of the 13th century. Considered as the precursor of human rights for men and women. Wandering in the Bardo Museum, a space which concentrates 3000 years of history. She recounts her journey and her vision of Sufi Islam. Her words are underlined by two 21st century scholars of Islam. Youssef Seddik and Neila Sellin.
- Magda and her four friends form a band. Young musicians misfits, living by wandering, as talented as lazy, as electrifying as immature, whose soft madness sometimes generates great violence. Yet a desire, more and more pronounced, torments Magda : to give to the group a path rather than a voice.
- Seven artists from different disciplines are kidnapped by unknown soldiers while working on controversial projects. The armed men force them to take an immediate decision about their masterpieces under threat of death. Each one of them deals with his own limits: fear, lack of courage or censorship.
- Océane is a little blind girl. She spends her days playing at the edge of the beach. She is very attached to her grandfather. Her grandfather enters the depths of the sea on a day of a great storm. While waiting for him, Oceane crystallizes and becomes a wax doll.
- A subterranean expedition to one of the biggest caves of Tunisia. It is called the Cave of the Mine and is located on the southern side of the mountainous region of Serj in the region of Weslatia, which is a small town in the state of Kairouan in the Center of Tunisia. The expedition is conducted by three Tunisians: a geologist and two speleologists. The team delves into the heart of two vast halls, where there are enormous discoveries worth scientific and aesthetic study.
- 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.
- A Yezidi girl who is a victim of the Islamic State (ISIS) atrocities. After 11 months of captivity, she gives birth to an illegitimate child whose father is unknown. The girl is then saved by a human trafficker, but her illegitimate daughter causes social problems since no one in the community accepts them.
- On the way home from a poker game, two young childhood friends, Khaled and Karim, mistake the floor where Karim parked. Walking back towards the elevator door to check another floor, a long hoot from a car horn interrupts the two friends. They find themselves at a crime scene of an abandoned vehicle and two corpses.
- A teacher from Tunis is appointed to teach in the south of the country. Against all odds, she is hardly trying to produce her student's films. This experience of desert crossing is an initiation that transforms the will to fight in a desire to be.
- Najet, whom the doctors say that she will die soon, thus, she decides to take the rest of her life head-on, instead of giving in to self-pity.
- Ala, Ahmed and Mahdi are only seventeen years old yet they do not see their lives without rap music. Despite the conflicting aspect which disturbs their relations with their families and their close surroundings, which disapprove their choices, they chose to follow their passion for music and notoriety by crossing all the limits.
- "Colocynth" is a wild plant which fruits give a very bitter pulp. This bitter taste is also the fruit of a language used by people who were born around March, 20, 1956, date of Tunisian Independence. These speeches of people of various age, sex, and ideologies, reveal the ill-treatment they experienced during the period of their detention at both physical and psychological levels. "Coloquinte" explores an inhuman past and aims at stopping the pain and bitterness, and making sure such atrocities will not happen in the future.
- A girl who is in the transition of puberty encounters something that arouses her sexually for the first time. She becomes restless as the day goes by in her oblivious semi-urban environment.
- Beirut 2013. My uncle Riad and his friends, all veterans of the Christian militias in Lebanon still live nostalgia for the war that impassioned their youth. Between shared memories in my uncle's hunting shop and their hunting trips from where they often return empty-handed, I question them, I confront them. What is really left from their old fights, their cause, and their ideals in times where Lebanon continues to drown in instability?
- A child who becomes a responsible adult and keeps within himself the innocence of the childhood.
- A moment of life of a young couple who finds themselves facing a probable eternal separation.
- A couple in love come from the far countryside to the city, where fate deals them a bitter blow by separating them.
- In some unspecified future, a North African family live self-sufficient lives. For some years, the country has been plunged into a war atmosphere where the fear of attacks coming from 'The Foreign Hand' means people are living under constant curfew.
- In a Tunisian village El Omrane in Sidi Bouzid (283 km from Tunis), massive arrests against young people who demonstrated their right to work. The elders of the town decide to start a hunger strike. Hamza 12, helps us discover the village, between resistance and memory.
- A Tunisian poet settles in France. Facing the blank page, he roams the streets of Paris without purpose or vocation. Images of Tunis come back to him and he seems to want to escape. During a nocturnal wandering, He crosses over a young woman. This meeting will oblige him to confront his past.
- Three women - grandmother, mother and daughter - live hidden away in an old building in Damascus. They have chosen to live in voluntary imprisonment, cutting themselves off from a city in a constant state of siege. As war rages outside, the women wander through the rooms like ghosts who are still alive, with passionate Syrian soap operas as the surreal soundtrack. The first film by a young documentary maker, a symbolic, almost abstract, complex and fierce reflection on the tragic destiny of a country.
- 14 January: day of the Tunisian revolution. Two days later, a climate of terror and a sense of insecurity reign throughout the land and in the people's hearts. Ramla, a young props girl of 24, is overwhelmed by her personal problems. Going home before the curfew begins she runs into unexpected difficulties and the situation gets out of hand.
- An Egyptian woman is trying to look after her four children, especially in the lead-up to and aftermath of her divorce from their father. However, over time, the circumstances around her gradually change on all levels.
- 2014 in Gafsa, the central town housing both the archives and the CPG phosphate company; it had been waiting more than half a century for revolution. After planting the seeds of this revolution and having maintained its spirit at such a high cost, where does the revolution stand at this moment. How has it developed and what is its future ?