2005
Tunisia-Iran-France-Germany-UK
Color/35mm/96min/Orig. Language: Arabic/Subtitle: English |
| This third feature from writer/painter/director/fabulist Nazir Khemir is a visual treat, full of star-spangled expanses of night sky and oceanic dunes. In amongst the harsh beauty is a tale of elderly wisdom and youthful innocence which, when combined, make an unbeatable combination. Ishtar is a little girl who guides her grandfather Bab’Aziz, an old blind dervish, through the desert to attend a big meeting of dervishes. Just like in a treasure hunt, they get to cross the paths of several characters: the singer Zaid, twin brothers Hussein and Hassan, with very different temperaments, Osman who is trying to leave the country and dreams of finding a young woman at the bottom of a well, Nour who is looking for his father, and the prince of the title who gives up his kingdom to become a dervish and who decides to build a palace in the middle of the desert. All these stories interweave around Bab’Aziz like a dream "which is within another dream and so on until the infinity of grains of sand." (Borges) |
- Script: Nacer Khémir, Tonino Guerra
- Editor: Isabelle Rathery
- Camera: Mahmoud Kalari
- Sound: Stuart Wilson / Steve Higgs
- Music: Armand Amar
- Cast: Praviz Shaminkhou, Maryam Hamid, Nessim Kahloul, Mohamed Grayaa, Golshiteh Frahani
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1991
Tunisia
Color / 35mm / 100min
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One night, an old aristocrat is attacked by a hoodlum in the street. Kinza, a young woman, rescues the old man and walks him home. Si Abbes gives the stranger a chich khan bracelet, an old and valuable family jewel. From this day he keeps dreaming about having an affair with the young woman. But Kinza soon discovers that the old mans Sicilian neighbours are after the bracelet. The man who attacked Si Abbes is his illegitimate son, Kariem, an ex-convict working for the Italians.. |
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- Writer: Mahmoud Ben Mahmoud, Fadhel Jaibi
- Camera: Gilberto Azevedo
- Editor: Arbi Ben Ali
- Cast: Gamil Ratib, Jalila Baccar, Elsa de Giorgi, Fethi Heddaoui, Aroua Maaouia, Kamel Touati, Kaouthar Bardi, Olfa Ben Khelifa, Giancarlo Conde
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2002
Tunisia
Color / 35mm / 107min / Documentary
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| Three friends go in a trip through south Tunisia: 30 years old is happy with her new divorce which would give her "freedom". Her first love, Mohammed, the archeologist, thinks that the immigration is his only salvation and Ali, who is coming from America with his head full of projects. |
- Script: Gérard Martin et Abdellatif Ben Ammar
- Sound: Chibeb Aoun
- Editing: Mohamed Lotfi Trifi
- Music: Jacques Davidovici
- Cast: Houyem Rassaa, Hichem Rostom, Ahmed Hafiène, Ahmed Snoussi, Jamila Chihi
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2000
Tunisia
Color / 35mm / 122 min / Orig. Language: arabic / Subtitle: French
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2002
Tunisia
Color / 35mm / 94min / Orig. Language: Arabic/ Subtitle: English
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Raouf is directing a film about his relationship with the art of cinema. He remembers his childhood in his city, where he grew in a family ruled by a very conservative father. Raouf is discovering cinema through his uncle Mansour, who travells the country to distribute films. |
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- Script: Ridha Behi
- Editing: France Duez
- Music: Lotfi Bouchnak
- Cast: Marianne Basler, Abdellatif Kechiche, Hichem Rostom, Lotfi Bouchnak, Mehdi Rebii
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2002
Tunisia
Color/35mm/96min/Orig. Language: Arabic/subtitles: English
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| Unable to find a cure for her child’s autism, Aicha (Rabiaa Ben Abdallah) decides to leave Tunis and return to the island of Djerba, the home of her husband and the place she has tried to escape from all her married life.Her grown up daughters Marian and Emsna accompany |
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| her on this move and temporarily remain with her on the island where the past unfolds for Aicha. Through a series of flashbacks, it is revealed that early on in her marriage, she had been left on the island - populated almost entirely by women waiting for their husbands to return from the cities where they work most of the year. The annual 'season of men' - when they return, and try desperately to conceive children with these alienated, abandoned wives - becomes a source of increasing tension and sexual dysfunction. |
- Script: Moufida Tlatli
- Sound: Faouzî Thabet
- Music: Anouar Braham
- Editing: Isabelle Devinck
- Cast: Rabiaa Ben Abdallah, Sabah Bouzouita, Ghalia Ben Ail, Hend Sabri
- Production: Maghreb Films Carthage (Tunisia), Les Films du Losange (France),
La Sept-ARTE (France)
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An old employer, is charged to put in tunis young girls of his village as maid. He receives their salary. And redistribute it to their family and guarantee himself on girls mind. Rebeh, the more rebell of the recrue couldn’t support anymore her situtation and decided to run away.
Omrane wants to find her to put her again on the right way, she is accompagned by a 8 years old boy called |
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Rebeh, she is suppose to put her somewhere too. But rebeh is preignant and doesn’t accept to give up her fresh freedom. On her side fedha will discovers before the time a world were child are not welcome. |
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- Script: Nouri Bouzid
- Photo: Tarek Ben Abdallah-Gilberto Azevedo
- Sound: Faouzi Thabet
- Editing: Caroline Emery-Anita Fernandez-Ingria Ralet - Benoi Bruwier
- Original Music: Rabii Zamouri
- Cast: Hend Sabri - Ahmed Hafiane - Omeya Ben Hafsia - Lotfi Abdelli
- Production: Cooproduction tunis-France-maroco, Nouveau regard, CTV, ANPA, Canal Horizon Tunisie, Touza Productions, Soread 2M, Abdelaziz Ben Mlouka, Hassen Daldoul. (Tunisia/Morrocco/France)
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1980
Tunisia
Color / 35mm / 103min/ Orig. Language:Arabic/Subtitle: French
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As the film opens, various pieces of old-fashioned furniture are being quietly moved off-screen, away from the crumbling walls of the old city, later to be stacked up in a bland white box – a ‘modern’ house - in a new workers’ suburb. But this extension into space and the supposedly good things in life is also marked by a diminution of traditional male roles. Aziza, who is usually forced to stay at home, must accompany her elderly uncle Bechir who cannot accustom himself to riding into the city on a bus to do his errands alone. Aziza’s swaggering cousin makes the logical move and acquires a car, beginning his extension into an entrepreneurial life he cannot sustain, and which will eventually force him back within the flimsy new walls. Only Aziza copes, gradually, with the new space. |
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- Script: Abdelatif Ben Ammar, Taoufik Jebali
- Camera: Youssef Sahraoui
- Music: Ahmed Malek
- Editor: Moufida Tlatli
- Cast: Yasmine Khlat, Raouf Ben Amor, Mohamed Zinet, Dalila Rammes, Mouna Noureddine, Taoufik Jebali
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Le Collier Perdu De La Colombe |
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1991
Tunisia
Color / 35mm / 90 min / Orig. Language: Arabic/ Subtitle: English
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During the 12 century, in Andalousia, a great master teaches Hassan the art of calligraphy. The young man is looking for the lost fragment of an |
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old manuscript describing 60 differents faces of love. Reality and deceptions confront this young apprentice. He is deraming of the Samarcande princess, for whom he conserves a portrait in the jacket of a burned book.
When the king died, the revolution explosed, Hassan leaves the city with Aziz, the pricess of his dreams. |
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- Script: Nacer Khémir
- Editing: Kahéna Attia.
- Cast: Navin Chowdhry, Walid Arakji, Ninar Esber, Sonia Hochlaff, Chloé Rejon
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The Book Store "Al Kotbiya" |
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2002
Tunisia
Color / 35mm / 100min
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| A Thousand And One Voices |
2001
Tunisia
Color / 35mm / 90min / Documentary/Orig. Language: Arabic / Subtitle: French
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| The director takes us in a journey from Tunisia to Cairo, Radjastan, Istanbul and Senegal to discover the many soufie "methods" with its unique musics and rythms, many voices for one soul. |
- Production: Touza Films (TN), Les Films du Sablier, RTBF, Artline Films, La Sept/Arte.
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1984
Tunisia
Color / 35mm / 90min / Orig. Language: Arabic/ Subtitle: English
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| Through a pane of glass of an old bus, a young teacher is looking parading the desert. He has been appointed in a village lost in the middle of this ocean of sand. Suddenly, appear men with dusty gesture in the desert : the wanderers. Are they a dream ? Or are they the gardiens of an another world ? |
- Script: Nacer Khémir
- Sound: Fawzi Thabet
- Music: Fethi Zghonda
- Editing: Moufida Tlatli
- Cast: Nacer Khémir, Soufiane Makni, Jamila Ourabi, Hassen Khalsi, Hédi Daoud, Noureddine Kasbaoui, Sonia Ichti, Abdelaadhim abdelhak
- Production: Latif Production - SATPEC (Tunisie), France Média (France)
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1994
Tunisia
Color / 35mm /127min
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| 25-year-old Alia is fed up with singing at weddings to entertain the guests. The latest of these humiliating experiences fills her with disgust for her lifestyle and a subdued revolt against Lofti who has shared the past ten |
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| years of Alia's life but keeps refusing to marry her. Once again, Lofti denies Alia her right to keep the child she is expecting. News of the death of Prince Sid'Ali, a former bey, suddenly takes Alia back to her past. At the funeral, she goes back to the palace where she spent her childhood and adolescence. |
- Written & Editing: Moufida Tlatli
- Camera: Youssef Ben Youssef
- Sound: Faouzi Thabet
- Music: Anouar Brahem
- Cast: Amel Hedhili, Hend Sabri, Najia Ouerghi, Ghalia Lacroix, Sami Bouajila, Kamel Fazaa, Hichem Rostom, Hélène Catzaras, Sonia Meddeb
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El kotbia takes place at a bookstore, and at the home of the family who owns it. Jamil goes to work for Tarek and is given a room and board as the store as part of |
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the arrangement. Tarek's wife, Lelia, harbors dreams of becoming a professional singer, and is in conflict with her mother-in-law, Aicha. Aicha is flamboyant by nature, leading to speculation from townspeople about the exact nature of her friendship with Jamil. |
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- Script: Nawfel Saheb-Ettaba
- Photo : Gilles Porte
- Sound: Hachmi Joulak
- Editing: Mounira Bhar, Nadia Ben Rachid
- Music: Kaïes Sellami, Julien Ome
- Cast: Raouf Ben Amor, Hend Sabri, Ahmed El-Haffiene, Martine Gafsi, Yadh Beji
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1982
Tunisia
Color / 35mm / 97min /Orig. Language:English-Arabic/ Subtitle: French
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In 31st. of December 1980, two political immigrants were forbidden from entering England and once again from entering Belgium. Their ferry turns to a moving prison between the two countries. One of them is looking for his freedom and hopes to fly whatever the cost. The second loses his desire to fight and becomes totally desperate. |
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- Script: Mahmoud Ben Mahmoud - Philipe Lejuste
- Dialogues : Mahmoud Ben Mahmoud - Fadhel Jaziri
- Sound : Fawzi Thabet - Hechmi Joulak
- Music : Francesco Accolia
- Editing : Moufida Tlatli
- Cast: Fadhel Jaziri - Julian Nagulesco - Eva Darlan - Vincent Grass - Christian Maillet - Colette Emmanuel
- Production : SATPEC (Tunis) - Marisa Films (Bruxelles)
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2003
Tunisia
Color / 35mm / 90 min / Orig. Language: Arabic / subtitle: English
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| Tunis during the summer of 1983. Having failed to get his high school degree 22 year old Hédi,, joins his father who has been hired to protect his boss’s house in the summer. The family leaves the poor neighbourhood |
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| to live in the luxurious property. Hédi meets his new neighbour Ramla. A love story is about to begin when Heidi’s brother, Raouf, arrives. Through Raouf – who lives abroad – Hedi discovers a society that is falling apart and which is full of illusion. Dealing with the immigration dreams of the Tunisian youth or the corruption of the elite in a tragicomedy tone (while situating his narrative in 1983), Damak evokes the relations of desire and equivoque reigning between the South and North shores of the Mediterranean. |
- Script : Mohamed Mahfoudh
- Editing : Nadia Berrachid
- Cast : Mohamed Jebali, Lotfi Abdelli, Dorra Zarouk.
- Production: CTV, ANPA, Bartala Film « Mohamed Damak » Taieb JALOULI, Soutien de la Ministère de la culture et de la Jeunesse et des Loisirs, 2003
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