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55 articles available in total starting from 19/05/2014. Last article published on 24/05/2025.

Kaouther Ben Hania  • Director of Four Daughters

Interview: Kaouther Ben Hania • Director of Four Daughters

"It was interesting to bring actors, like mirrors, face to face with real characters"

CANNES 2023: The Tunisian director, in the running for the Palme d'Or for the first time, explains her unique approach, which blurs the line between documentary and fiction  

22/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Competition

Review: Four Daughters

Review: Four Daughters

CANNES 2023: Kaouther Ben Hania shines a light on the complex place that women occupy in Tunisia through the story of a family and an original hybridation between documentary and fiction  

20/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Competition

Review: Geology of Separation

Review: Geology of Separation

Yosr Gasmi and Mauro Mazzocchi’s documentary is a polyphonic study of two refugees’ journey through the asylum process, and an unfamiliar Europe as a whole  

07/02/2023 | IFFR 2023 | Tiger Competition

Review: Alam

Review: Alam

Firas Khoury’s debut feature is a fiery and engaging exploration of youth, politicisation and forced forgetting  

19/09/2022 | Toronto 2022 | Contemporary World Cinema

Episode 29: Motherhood (France/Canada/Tunisia)

Episode 29: Motherhood (France/Canada/Tunisia)

The producers of Meryam Joober's film are invited to speak about their collaboration and the financing of their film, which has received Eurimages support  

20/06/2022 | The Co-production Podcast

Review: Ashkal

Review: Ashkal

CANNES 2022: In Youssef Chebbi’s pensive thriller, mysterious self-immolations abound at a Tunisian housing development associated with the pre-revolutionary regime  

01/06/2022 | Cannes 2022 | Directors’ Fortnight

Erige Sehiri  • Director of Under the Fig Trees

Interview: Erige Sehiri • Director of Under the Fig Trees

“There is no sign of modernity in nature; it’s in these women, and especially the young girls”

CANNES 2022: The French-Tunisian director and producer breaks down several aspects of her beautiful and timeless narrative feature debut  

31/05/2022 | Cannes 2022 | Directors’ Fortnight

Review: Under the Fig Trees

Review: Under the Fig Trees

CANNES 2022: Erige Sehiri’s new feature has hints of Éric Rohmer as it shows Tunisian women working and flirting on an orchard  

23/05/2022 | Cannes 2022 | Directors’ Fortnight

Review: Harka

Review: Harka

CANNES 2022: A young Tunisian man strives for a better life than selling contraband petroleum on the streets, in Lotfy Nathan’s debut feature  

19/05/2022 | Cannes 2022 | Un Certain Regard

Mehdi Hmili • Director of Streams

Interview: Mehdi Hmili • Director of Streams

“This proletarian type of character, struggling with reality, is my modern hero”

We chatted to the director about his award-winning tale of a female victim of police injustice, who goes to prison for adultery  

07/12/2021 | Cairo 2021

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