Faouzi Thabet

Four women meet at Dar Joued on the eve of Independence. With different ages and social conditions, they are condemned to live together under the authority and injustice of their jailer: "El Jaida". They will share memories of the outside world, joy, emotions and distress of their daily lives.

Young Tunisian Hedi lives an ordered life in which he believes there can be no more surprises. His future will play out as other people have planned, until he meets a young woman named Rim at a hotel in Mahdia Hediand. An ostensibly personal story broadens into a panorama of a society in upheaval, an allegory about breaking away from traditions. And a film about the happiness and pain of freedom.

A young architect who lives in Paris, returns to his hometown Fès in Morocco to find answers to his painful childhood. His old Sufi master Ba Jelloul and his friend Aziz try to help him reconstruct himself.

Alex Randal (Stephen Moyer), a young reporter on the make, decides, without knowing anything about the situation, to go to Beirut on October 23, 1983, when he hears a radio report about suicide trucks exploding on both an American base and a French base, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of soldiers. Seduced by a gifted and enigmatic photographer, Julia Muller (Anne Parillaud), Randal finds a capitol torn by civil war, where political, financial and strategic interests intertwine.

Wahid and his daughter Soufiya return to Tunisia after a long stay in West Africa.Wahid would like to transform Soufiya into a real Tunisian, a true daughter of their land, but the country has changed a lot in there absence.

Summer, 1967. La Goulette, the touristic beach of Tunisi, is the site where three nice seventeen-year-old girls live: Gigi, sicilian and catholic; Meriem, Tunisian and Arab; Tina, French and Jewish. They would like to have their first sexual experience during that summer, challenging their families. Their fathers, Youssef, Jojo and Giuseppe, are old friends and their friendship will be in crisis because of the girls, while Hadj, an old rich Arab, would like to marry Meriem.

왕자를 시중들던 하녀의 딸 알리아는 왕자의 부고를 받고 10년 전 떠났던 궁전을 찾아간다. 그곳에서 알리아는 계급은 물론 성적으로도 종속되어 있던 엄마의 어두운 삶과 그로 인해 혼란스러웠던 자신의 어린 시절을 회상한다. 튀니지아가 프랑스 식민치하에서 벗어난 후 한 소녀의 성적 정체성의 혼란을 그린, 튀니지아 출신의 여성감독 무피아 틀라틀리의 첫 데뷔작. 아랍 여성 영화사에 한 획을 그은 작품으로 억압 받는 여성의 해방과 권리 찾기를 보여준다. 궁전의 제일 밑바닥 공간인 부엌은 여성들의 삶의 공간이자 자유의 공간이다. 감독은 1950년 독립 이전 프랑스의 속국이었던 튀니지의 이국적인 정취와 무슬림 전통을 매력적으로 담아내면서 페미니즘적 관점으로 여성의 위치와 남성 특권에 대해 조망한다. 1994 토론토 영화제 비평가상 수상. 1994 칸느 영화제 특별 언급.

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.

In the ensuing days before his wedding bridegroom Hachemi faces both the anxieties of the future and the shadows of the past. His best friend, Farfat, is the topic of street graffiti and local gossip, which calls his manhood into question. This ripples out to affect Hachemi for, unbeknownst to anyone, as apprenticed youths they were molested by Ameur, the local carpenter. Farfat is banished from his father's home and the shared secret between the two friends threatens to undo more than just the wedding, but their very lives.