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62 articles available in total starting from 19/05/2014. Last article published on 12/12/2025.

Review: Sophia

Review: Sophia

Dhafer L’Abidine’s third feature, in which he also stars, is a thriller centring on the disappearance of a six-year-old girl in Tunis  

12/12 | Marrakech 2025

Mehdi Hmili • Director of Exile

Interview: Mehdi Hmili • Director of Exile

“The Arab Spring failed, and with it our dreams of freedom and social justice”

The Tunisian auteur explains how he decided on the visual approach of his film and reflects on how it comments on the weakening results of the Arab Spring revolution in his home country  

19/11 | Cairo 2025

Review: Residence Hammamet - My Mother’s Maktub

Review: Residence Hammamet - My Mother’s Maktub

Salvatore Allocca delivers an affectionate documentary about his mother, who has emigrated to Tunisia, and the community of Italian retirees who move abroad where the cost of living is lower  

24/10 | Rome 2025

EXCLUSIVE: Kaouther Ben Hania shooting Mimesis

EXCLUSIVE: Kaouther Ben Hania shooting Mimesis

Recently honoured with Venice’s Grand Jury Prize, the Tunisian director is already hard at work on her new feature, produced by Tanit Films and sold by The Party Film Sales  

30/09 | Production | Funding | France/Germany/Sweden/Belgium/Tunisia

Kaouther Ben Hania • Director of The Voice of Hind Rajab

Interview: Kaouther Ben Hania • Director of The Voice of Hind Rajab

“Just as people know the name Anne Frank, they should know the name Hind Rajab”

VENICE 2025: After her lengthy standing ovation, the Tunisian director talks to us about her one-room-shot reconstruction of the events surrounding the titular girl’s death  

06/09 | Venice 2025 | Competition

Review: The Voice of Hind Rajab

Review: The Voice of Hind Rajab

VENICE 2025: Kaouther Ben Hania’s powerful docudrama integrates the real emergency call from the six-year-old girl killed by the IDF with dramatised scenes  

04/09 | Venice 2025 | Competition

Review: Exile

Review: Exile

Mehdi Hmili's film is an ambient, slow-burning vengeance flick that becomes, inadvertently perhaps, a comment on a masculinity crisis  

13/08 | Locarno 2025 | Out of Competition

Morad Mostafa • Director of Aisha Can't Fly Away

Interview: Morad Mostafa • Director of Aisha Can't Fly Away

"I asked myself why, in Egyptian cinema, we don't have any films about non-Egyptians characters"

CANNES 2025: The Egyptian filmmaker talked to us about the origins of his debut feature, centred on an African migrant in Cairo  

24/05 | Cannes 2025 | Un Certain Regard

Review: Aisha Can’t Fly Away

Review: Aisha Can’t Fly Away

CANNES 2025: Morad Mostafa crafts a debut feature that’s cinematically familiar in its festival aesthetic but is let down by a surface-level story despite its weighty themes  

23/05 | Cannes 2025 | Un Certain Regard

Erige Sehiri • Director of Promised Sky

Interview: Erige Sehiri • Director of Promised Sky

"In everyday life, we hide things, we don’t tell people everything, we don’t show everything"

CANNES 2025: The French-Tunisian filmmaker explains the intentions which fed into her second fiction feature film which revolves around three migrant women brought together by circumstance in Tunis  

15/05 | Cannes 2025 | Un Certain Regard

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