Kamel Touati

Following the arrival of the New Year, Slimane's (Kamel Touati) wife, Zeineb (Jamila Chihi), offers to go and spend it in a hotel. Meanwhile, her mother Douja, desperate to have canceled her date, is putting together a plan with Fadhila (Mouna Noureddine) which consists of leaving with them that day. The couple then finds themselves for this evening with Sboui, his wife, his children and their mothers. Sboui begins to make mistakes (forgetting his brother's suitcase on the bus, buying drinks, destroying the swing and stolen belongings in the hotel), which makes the stay unpleasant for the couple.

Three well-educated North African women cope with sexual stereotyping in modern Tunisia. Amina a married Muslim woman living in Tunis with her two daughters. Even though she is allowed certain freedoms as a Muslim woman this is curtailed when she meets her old friend from school Aida.

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 behind frosted windows and velvet curtains.

Tunisia's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1995

A community of people rejected by society live in an abandoned residence located in a "Medina": an old town in Tunisia. Al Bab, a local criminal running the residence's prostitution circle, returns from prison on his wedding day. Fraj, his brother and the town warlock, falls in love with Ramla, his brother's future wife: He is the only man of the residence who has seen her face, as she is kept prisoner in one of the rooms until the wedding night.