Tunisia - Best International Feature Film
Tunisian submissions for the Oscars for Best International Feature Film
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- DirectorAzdine MellitiStarsAhmed ChebilAzdine MellitiMehdi SaffarA semi-autobiographical story, based on the life of director, in which a young boy is left home alone to watch over the family residence when his impoverished family emigrates to France. The boy discovers the joy of movies at a local cinema and begins to try and re-enact them.
- DirectorRidha BehiStarsMarianne BaslerAbdellatif KechicheHichem RostomTunisia today - Raouf, a well known filmmaker, is deeply unhappy about his disintegrating relationship with his French wife. She rejects the confinement in which she feels she's been prisoner for too long, far from her homeland. She's bitter and fed up and the atmosphere at home is tense. A European television channel commissions Raouf to make a film about the relationship between children and cinema. This leads him to make an intense and nostalgic reverie about his childhood spent in Kairouan. Torn between his oppressive father, an authoritarian and religious person unwilling to make any concessions, and his irresistible discovery of cinema, a universe of dreams and freedom, Raouf experiences his first emotions and desire for rebellion. He's supported and accompanied by his maternal uncle, Mansour, a roaming projectionist who lives in the town's brothel. He initiates young Raouf to the ways of love, to life.
- DirectorLeyla BouzidStarsBaya MedhaffarGhalia BenaliMontassar AyariA few months before the revolution in Tunisia, 18 year-old Farah has a passion for life and sings in a political rock band. Her mother, knowing the dangers of Tunisia, wants her to pursue a career as a doctor.Not on the Final List
- DirectorAlaeddine SlimStarsJahwar SoudaniFethi AkkariJihed FourtiN is coming from the desert to reach North Africa and make an illegal crossing to Europe. He steals a boat, but it soon sinks into the middle of the sea, then embarks in an imaginary surrealistic odyssey where he makes intense and fleeting encounters, and rediscovers his relationship with nature.
- DirectorKaouther Ben HaniaStarsMariam Al FerjaniGhanem ZrelliNoomen HamdaA college student seeks help after a brutal assault but faces a bureaucratic nightmare when she reveals that her perpetrators are police officers.
- DirectorMohamed Ben AttiaStarsMohamed DhrifMouna MejriZakaria Ben AyyedA Tunisian middle class couple with high hopes for the future of their only son discover he's left to join ISIS in Syria.
- DirectorKaouther Ben HaniaStarsYahya MahayniDea LianeKoen De BouwHis own body turned into a living work of art and promptly exhibited in a museum, Sam, a Syrian refugee, will soon realize to have sold away more than just his skin.Nominated
- DirectorAbdelhamid BouchnakMarwa ZnaidiStarsFethi HaddaouiMohamed SouissiRayan DhaouadiMoez, a policeman in his thirties with a bloody past, meets a young boy with whom he undertakes a fantastic journey.
- DirectorErige SehiriStarsAmeni FdhiliFide FdhiliFeten FdhiliAmong the trees, young women and men working the summer harvest develop new feelings, flirt, try to understand each other, find - and flee - deeper connections.
- DirectorKaouther Ben HaniaStarsOlfa HamrouniEya ChikhaouiTayssir ChikhaouiBetween light and darkness stands Olfa, a Tunisian woman and the mother of four daughters. One day, her two older daughters disappear. Filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania invites professional actresses to fill in their absence.Shortlist