Halfaouine: Boy of the Terraces

Halfaouine: Boy of the Terraces

Twelve-year-old Noura dangles uncertainly in that difficult netherworld between childhood and adulthood. His growing libido has gotten him banned...

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Omar Gatlato

Omar Gatlato

Omar, a young man, lives a simple life with his family and suffers from loneliness. His life changes when he tries to bond with a girl he barely...

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The Silences of the Palace

The Silences of the Palace

The death of a prince brings a young woman back to the palace where she was born into servitude. The lingering legacy is brought into light from...

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Fertile Memory

Fertile Memory

The first full length film to be shot within the disputed Palestinian West Bank "Green Line," FERTILE MEMORY is the feature debut of Michel Khleifi...

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Nadia and Sarra

Nadia and Sarra

Nadia is a 45 year old female professor at the University of Tunis. She is married and has a daughter of 18, Sarra. For some time, Nadia has...

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Arab Camera

Arab Camera

Focusing on key Arab films produced in the last 20 years. Férid Boughedir traces the development of the film-makers' concern to produce more...

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Wanderers of the Desert

Wanderers of the Desert

A young teacher arrives to take over a village school isolated in the shimmering desert. Legendary figures materialize out of wells and the desert...

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The Season of Men

The Season of Men

An 18 year old on the island Djerba, Aicha, is married to Said, who works in Tunis for much of the year. Aicha breaks with tradition and decides to...

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Nahla

Nahla

After the battle of Kfar Chouba in Lebanon in January 1975, Larbi Nasri, a young Algerian journalist, was caught in the whirlwind of events...

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Layla, Ma Raison

Layla, Ma Raison

Since childhood, Qays and Layla have been in love. Qays, being a poet, publicly sings of his love, crying it out joyously far and wide - just the...

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Aziza

Aziza

Around 1980, in Tunisia, Si Béchir, an old craftsman, sold his house and left the medina of Tunis with his family to settle in a new city on the...

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Sejnane

Sejnane

Kemal studies in the Sadiki boarding school. Since the death of his father who was murdered by a secret colonial organization, Kemal has doubts...

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Canticle of Stones

Canticle of Stones

Two Palestinian lovers, parted during the 60s when he is imprisoned for resisting the Israeli occupation and she sorrowfully emigrates to the US...

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The Trace

The Trace

A determined young woman in a remote Tunisian city bucks tradition by studying for an academic degree, instead of accepting the time-honored...

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A Door to the Sky

A Door to the Sky

In this Sufi tale, Nadia, a young Moroccan emigre returns from Paris to Fez to visit her dying father. At his funeral, she is overcome by the voice...

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Fatma 75

Fatma 75

A pioneering film from Tunisia, Fatma 75 is the first non-fiction film by a Tunisian woman, a feminist essay film, and the first in a series of...

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Crossing Over

Crossing Over

Mahmoud Ben Mahmoud's first feature film.

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The Shadow of the Earth

The Shadow of the Earth

Rich in environmental mood and ethnic color, this human drama chronicles the lives and rituals of a nomadic Berber tribe in the southern Tunisian...

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