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

Like every summer, little Salomé returns to her family village nestled in the Portuguese mountains for the holidays. As the vacations begin in a carefree atmosphere, her beloved grandmother suddenly dies. While the adults are tearing each other apart over the funeral, Salomé is haunted by the spirit of the one who was considered a witch.

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.

Um fotojornalista que investiga a primeira expedição ao Everest acaba se envolvendo na busca por um respeitado alpinista que desapareceu.

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 é uma bela jovem apaixonada. Toda produzida, ela decide pegar um atalho por um edifício abandonado a caminho de um encontro. Em segundo plano, seu ex, Kevin, desce de sua scooter. Assim começa uma história universal do século XXI de poder masculino e feminino, sexualidade e vergonha.

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.

Sam Ali, um jovem sírio sensível e impulsivo, trocou seu país pelo Líbano para escapar da guerra. Para poder viajar para a Europa e viver com o amor de sua vida, ele aceita ter suas costas tatuadas por um dos artistas contemporâneos mais cultuados do mundo, transformando seu próprio corpo em uma obra de arte de prestígio. Sam, entretanto, percebe que sua decisão pode significar qualquer coisa, menos liberdade.

Yuri, 16, viveu toda a sua vida em Gagarin Towers, um vasto projeto habitacional de tijolos vermelhos nos arredores de Paris. Ele sonha em se tornar um astronauta. Quando os planos de demolir as Torres Gagarin vazam, Yuri se junta à resistência. Com seus amigos Diana e Houssam, ele embarca em uma missão para salvar sua casa, que se tornou sua “nave estelar”.

Tunisia, summer 2011. The holiday to the South of the country ends in disaster for Fares, Meriem and their 10-year-old son Aziz, when he is accidentally shot in an ambush. His injury will change their lives: Aziz needs a liver transplant, which leads to discovery of a long-buried secret. Will Aziz and the relationship survive?

Amine rouba uma sacola cheia de dinheiro e tenta escapar da polícia pelas colinas. Antes de ser pego, o homem consegue enterrar a mala e faz com que o lugar pareça um antigo túmulo. Depois de alguns anos, ele sai da prisão e começa a busca pelo dinheiro escondido. Chegando ao local, contudo, Amine descobre que ali foi construído um santuário em glorificação a um santo desconhecido. A missão de recuperar a fortuna torna-se, assim, muito mais complicada.

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.

Quando uma manifestação termina em violência, um médico forense e uma jornalista partem em busca da verdade.

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.

Mariam conhece Youssef em uma festa. Poucas horas depois, ela vagueia pela rua em choque. Assim começa uma longa noite durante a qual Mariam terá de lutar pelo respeito dos seus direitos e da sua dignidade. Como é possível obter justiça quando ela está do lado dos algozes?

Em julho de 2012, não muito longe da antiga cidade de Timbuktu no Mali, o orgulhoso pastor de gado Kidane (Ibrahim Ahmed aka Pino) vive pacificamente nas dunas com sua esposa Satima (Toulou Kiki), sua filha Toya (Layla walet Mohamed), e seu filho Issan (Mehdi Mohamed Ag) , seu pequeno pastor com doze anos. Na cidade, as pessoas sofrem, impotentes, com o regime de terror imposto pelos jihadistas determinados a controlar sua fé. Música, risos, cigarros, mesmo o futebol, foram proibidos. As mulheres tornaram-se sombrias, mas resistem com dignidade. Todos os dias, os novos tribunais improvisados emitem sentenças trágicas e absurdas. Kidane e sua família, por morarem nas dunas, estão sendo poupados do caos que reina em Timbuktu. Mas seu destino mudará abruptamente.

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.