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- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- A couple in love come from the far countryside to the city, where fate deals them a bitter blow by separating them.
- A moment of life of a young couple who finds themselves facing a probable eternal separation.
- 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.
- "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.
- 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.
- 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.
- A displaced child gets involved in crime with an older thief. Will this be his last burglary?
- 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.
- 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.
- A job is a once-in-a-lifetime chance. What if the wait is too long? What happens when the opportunity comes by at an unexpected moment?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- In a village in the desert, she disappeared, Maj'noun madly in love, went to search for her, Reality or utopia - The village gates separates them, The vastness of the desert keeps them away from one another. The madness of maj'noun feeds the fire of his desire, Leading him to the ecstasy of absence. His body exhausts itself in this quest, Will it lead him to her?
- Explores the last 70 years of Palestinian politics in the life of Dr Elias Shoufani, leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, academic writer and radical leftist intellectual.
- Three officers sent by the Bey, arrives to a farming village to collect taxes. The villagers initiate the payoff sharing their goods but the bey's messengers persist in humiliating them, infringing their dignity and honor, which triggered contestations.
- 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.
- Chronicles of everyday life in Iraq before and after the U.S. invasion.
- 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.
- A company's CEO, is told off by his wife on the phone. Powerless, he takes it out on his assistant who takes revenge on the secretary who scolds the courier. Once he gets out of the office, the courier spreads the bad mood in the whole city.
- 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.
- 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 ?
- The documentary focuses on the political, social, economical and ecological conditions of cereal and demonstrates how the food question is in fact at the heart of the issue of individual and collective human dignity as well as Tunisian's local and national food independence and sovereignty.
- Two young Tunisians struggle to survive by working in the hay trade. With no alternative other than unemployment or exploitation, their dreams of a carefree youth quickly turn to despair. A film with wild energy that leaves a bitter taste while making a sharp statement on Tunisia today.
- 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.
- A throwback to Habib Bourguiba's presidency era in 1978, focusing on the failed strike insurrection by the Union in parallel with a very memorable sport event, the qualification of the Tunisian National Team to the World Cup in Argentina.
- A child who becomes a responsible adult and keeps within himself the innocence of the childhood.
- Reflects the fury of life of Tunisian youth and describes the quest of young people who want to move to their dark reality in order to find positive energy. In the neighborhoods of Tunis, a group of young Tunisian rappers seeks to be heard. While these are groups of students who challenge their daily life in a citizen initiative.
- «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.
- The Arab feminism existed for over a century. From Beirut to Casablanca, passing through Riyadh, Cairo and Tunis, this documentary tells the unknown History and wonders about the possibility of its perpetuation in the current geopolitical context.