Amine Bouhafa

Aya, a young Ivorian woman in her early thirties, says no on her wedding day, to everyone’s astonishment. After emigrating to Asia, she works in a tea export shop with Cai, a 45-year-old Chinese man. Aya and Cai fall in love but can their affair survive the turmoil of their past and other people’s prejudices?

25 composers, 25 filmmakers, 25 ultimate symbioses of music and cinematography that fit completely within the DNA of Film Fest Gent and the World Soundtrack Awards. For the unique 2x25 project, the festival asked 25 composers to compose a short piece of music, after which 25 filmmakers made a short film. The result: 25 exceptional films where the music inspired the form, narrative and texture.

Amel is released from prison after an adulterous affair. In the violent streets of Tunis, Amel seeks her missing son Moumen, a young football player destroyed by the scandal. During her journey, Amel has to face Tunisian society in ruins.

Jean has been the conservative mayor of a small town for several years. He intends to run for another term. Edith, his wife, is the paragon of the traditional devoted housewife and mother. So it comes as quite a shock when she tells her husband of forty years that deep down, she has always been... A MAN! Totally blindsided, Jean didn't see this coming. For a politician campaigning on family values, this is too much! But Edith, still the loving wife, make a deal with him: she will postpone her transition and stay a woman until after the elections. But as we know, campaigns are all about digging up dirt to keep the rumor mill turning

Marked by years of prison, Djo, a parcel delivery man in the Paris suburbs, lives modestly with his mother and daughter. One day, an aunt who has just fled the Ivorian conflict arrives at their home with her three children. In a hurry, Djo manages to find them a place to live. But faced with the growing demand and with the prospect of offering a decent life to his daughter, Djo switches and becomes a sleep merchant.

Itto, a young woman from a modest rural background, is slowly adapting to the Moroccan privileged codes of her husband’s family. But when supernatural events put the country in a state of emergency, Itto finds herself separated from her husband and new family. Alone, pregnant and looking for her way back, she finds emancipation.

A group of teenagers spend their summer working in the fig harvest in rural northwest Tunisia. Melek and her friends work in the orchards during the summer to pay for their studies, prepare for their weddings or help their families. Between the fig trees, under the gaze of older workers and young men, they reveal and project themselves, on the threshold of an adult life. The fig orchard becomes a real theater of emotions, where their relationships with work, love, friendship and the land are played out.

Inspired by the story of Malik Oussekine, an affair of police violence which is believed to have caused the death of 22-year-old Malik Oussekine on the night of 5-6 December 1986, following several weeks of student protests against a university reform bill

여름 방학을 맞은 살로메는 할머니를 비롯한 가족들과 시골 마을에서 즐거운 시간을 보내고 있는 중이다. 민간 신앙에 관심이 많은 할머니, 오랜 갈등을 숨기고 있는 가족들과 함께 지내는 동안 살로메는 많은 것을 보고 듣고 생각한다. 포르투갈 교외의 아름다운 풍경과 루아 미셸의 연기가 선명한 인상을 남기는 작품. 2022년 칸영화제 비평가주간 상영. 감독의 장편 데뷔작.

Everything seems to be smiling again at Yazid, an actor with a sulphurous past. He is trying to regain custody of his son and find a stable family life. But despite his efforts, he is overtaken by his old demons...

Jamil and Milad are brothers with very different personalities. Jamil is a get-up-and-go carpenter, following in his father's footsteps. Milad is a sensitive trumpeter and dreamer. As their home country, Syria, sinks further into war, Jamil emigrates first to Beirut and then makes an illegal journey to Sweden. Milad stays in Damascus, but eventually can’t take it any longer and decides to leave to Berlin. Their cousin Wissam records their journey for over five years, bringing back childhood memories while questioning the true meaning of home. The traumatic war in Syria plays a background role in this documentary, which focuses more on the psychological effects of being uprooted and the way the brothers, who had previously hardly travelled, deal with emigration. It draws with humility and admiration the human ability to cope with change, as radical as it can be. Jamil and Milad are achievers, each adapting his own way.

Adel (Ahmed Ezz) is a middle-aged man, raised by his strict grandfather who he was deeply inspired by. Set in the 1970's, he met his first love, Nadia, (Menna Shalaby) who later became his wife and the mother of his son. After this, a chain of events lead to Adel committing many crimes, which are investigated by Amgad Al Husseiny (Maged el kedwany) and later in the movie, a series of surprises are revealed.

에베레스트를 처음 정복한 것은 누구인가? 실종된 위대한 산악인과 그가 남긴 진실을 찾아, 한 사진기자의 집요한 추적이 시작된다.

While helping tend her family’s herd of cows in a northern region of Senegal, a 13-year-old girl faces changes that threaten her tight bond with her father in this vividly realized directorial debut by screenwriter and filmmaker Ramata-Toulaye Sy.

A coming-of-age political love story set in the final years of British colonial Zanzibar. Denge, a young freedom fighter meets Yasmin, an Indian-Zanzibari woman in the middle of the night as she is on her way to be married. Passion and revolution escalate.

Nora is a striking young girl in new love. We see her dancing around her bedroom, lip-synching, testing outfits, in between sending heart emojis, and more, to the special boy. All dressed up, she takes a short cut through an abandoned building, on the way for her hot date. Kevin pulls up in the background on his scooter. He's Nora's recent ex, jilted and jealous. Kevin grabs Nora's phone, and what ensues is a now universal 21st century story of male-female power, sexuality and shame with a biting, feminist twist.

For thirty years, French-Algerian sisters Zorah, Nohra and Djamila have been living in the hope of finding their brother Rheda, abducted by their father, and hidden in newly decolonised Algeria. Their relationship is shaken when Zorah, the eldest sister, decides to write a play based on the traumatising events of their childhood that haunted them their whole life. But when they learn that their father is dying, the three sisters decide to go to Algeria to seize their last opportunity to have him reveal where their brother is. When the past catches up, the three sisters have no choice but to put their differences aside.

자유, 돈, 명예를 원한 '샘'은 악마 같은 예술가 '제프리'가 던진 계약서에 서명한다. 계약은 바로 그의 피부에 타투를 새겨 '살아있는 예술품'으로 평생 전시되는 것! 퍼스트 클래스 항공권과 5성급 호텔, 그리고 톱스타급의 인기까지! 타투 하나로 180도 바뀐 인생을 즐기던 '샘'은 얼마 지나지 않아 자신이 '제프리'에게 팔아 넘긴 건 단순히 피부만이 아니라는 것을 깨닫는데…

가가린 옥상에서 하늘을 보며 우주비행사를 꿈꾸던 10대 소년, 유리. 사랑하는 사람들과 함께 꿈을 키운 공간이었던 가가린 주택단지의 철거가 결정되고, 유리는 가가린을 지키기 위해 고군분투한다. 유리는 자신의 우상이자 우주, 그리고 집이었던 가가린 주택단지를 지켜낼 수 있을까?

2011년 튀니지의 여름, 파레스와 미리엄 부부는 그의 10살 아들과 남부지방으로 휴가를 간다. 그곳에서 아들 아지즈가 매복해있던 테러리스트가 쏜 총에 맞는 끔찍한 일을 겪게 된다. 아지즈에게 간이식이 필요해지자 오랫동안 묻혀있던 가족의 비밀이 드러난다.

돈 가방을 훔쳐 달아나던 아민은 경찰에 체포되기 직전 언덕 위에 구덩이를 파고 돈가방을 묻는다. 몇 년 후 출소해 돈가방을 찾으러 간 아민은 그 자리에 성전이 세워진 것을 보게 된다. 사람들은 그 곳을 최근 발굴된 ‘이름 없는 성자의 무덤’으로 부르며 경배하고 있다. 멀리서 성지순례를 오는 사람들로 인해 언덕 아래에는 새로운 마을이 형성되어 있고, 아민은 돈가방을 찾을 기회를 노리며 마을에 머물기 시작한다. 어이없는 상황이 주는 헛웃음으로 시작한 영화는 마을 속 다양한 사람들과 그들의 관계를 통해 사막지역 사람들의 삶의 단면을 예리한 시선으로 보여준다. 그들의 삶은 더 나아가 신앙과 자본, 가족 등의 가치가 뒤섞여 변화하고 있는 오늘날 세상의 가치를 담고 있기도 하다. 가볍지만 결코 가볍지 않은 영리한 코미디로, 2019년 칸 영화제 비평가주간에 상영됐다

After seven years abroad in Italy, Tarek returns home to Tunisia, he meets Khaled, who is everything he isn't: successful, handsome, and helpful..

Three friends form a gang of pirates, “Sea Burglars”, get assigned to a mission against the Mob, after a large cargo of diamonds was heisted. Things turn into a web of rivalries and paybacks, when one one of them decides to do the mission on his own and escape to Morocco.

After a clash between a group of demonstrators and the security forces, one of the bodies of this clash is returned to the morgue with seven other bodies. The forensic doctor, Yassin Al-Manstarli, writes his medical report after examining the body and states that the victim was shot at close range, unlike the other bodies and the problems begins when this medical report leaks to the media.

Amin has come from Senegal to work in France, leaving behind his wife Aïcha, and their three children. He leads a solitary life in France, where the only space he occupies is his home and the building sites on which he works. Most of his earnings are sent to Senegal. One day, he meets a woman, Gabrielle, and a relationship is born.

In exchange for a few watermelons he loves so much, an Imam organises emergency funerals. His ex-jihadist assistant suspects a conspiracy... A cutting and witty story.

튀니지의 젊은 여성인 마리암은 어느 학생 파티에서 유수프를 알게 되고, 그에게 어딘가 의문스러운 점이 있음에도 결국엔 그를 따라 나서기로 한다. 그리고 바로 그날 밤, 자신의 권리와 존엄을 되찾기 위한 그녀의 지난한 투쟁이 시작된다. 가해자의 편에 서 있는 정의를 구현하는 것이 과연 가능한 일일까?

이슬람 근본주의자들이 장악한 말리의 팀북투. 핍박받는 주민들과 떨어져, 키단은 근처 사막에서 아내 사티마와 딸 토야, 양치기 이산과 평화롭게 산다. 그러던 중 그는 자신의 소를 죽인 어부를 뜻하지 않게 살해하면서 근본주의자들이 지휘하는 법정에 출두하게 된다.

Cleo is six years old, has a myopic look and has been madly in love with Gloria, her nanny, since she was born. When Gloria receives a call and must urgently return to her home in Cape Verde to care for her two children, whom she has not raised, Cleo makes her promise to meet one last time. Gloria accepts and invites Cleo to spend the summer vacations on her island. A last summer that they will spend together, in Gloria’s family, before inevitably saying goodbye.