Tunisia | Documentary Short Films | 2016 - 2020
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- DirectorYounes Ben SlimaneIn a spectacular environment, accompanied by an impressive soundscape, Younes Ben Slimane's film observes the manipulation of nature by man, the director works on the boundaries between art, architecture, photography and cinema, using an intimate framing and a beautiful image, he captures the beauty of his homeland in every shot.
- DirectorFakhri El GhezalStarsMalek LaidJawher SaadFocusing on remembering and also the longing that they felt on the voyage through the shared footsteps of two rappers, Jojo M and Galaaa, and the director, before and after their migration from Redeyef in Tunisia to Nantes in France. Shot on Super 8, Fakhri El Ghezal's tender, musical and intimate film poetically retraces the journey of young Tunisian men arriving in Europe. In this melancholic and almost unreal universe, the feelings of travelers, from loneliness to friendship, run through the film. A glimpse of beauty to overcome the most difficult challenges.
- DirectorGabo AroraUnderstanding Sufism, by its very nature, is experiential. It is a commonly misunderstood branch of Islam that is often typecast as esoteric, mystical, and far outside of mainstream practices. But in many Muslim countries, Sufism is deeply bound to national heritage and other artistic outlets. Zikr enables four people at a time to experience Sufism much as practitioners do in Tunisia and, together, participate in ecstatic music rituals and encounter new spiritual possibilities.
- DirectorYounes Ben HajriaPresents the various stages in the production of wool and its transformation into yarn to make clothes, against the rhythm of the sound of the machines.
- DirectorWassim KorbiStarsRaouf GaraA painter, a space, an artist, a port. A rich encounter, an aesthetic query with complex identity extensions, happiness and torments of the gaze of an artist, an artist from Kélibia, Raouf Gara.
- DirectorSlim GomriThe film shows the worldview and enthusiasm of these young musicians of 13-18, whose passion for music sets them apart. They speak of their dreams, their daily lives, their passions and their native land that is trying to find a way forward. The buildings of the famous Lycée Bourguiba and the music of the Tunisian Youth Orchestra constitute the background.
- StarsHaythem AchourKarim Ait M'HandSondos BelhassenThe Making-of Mehdi Ben Attia's feature film Of Skin and Men (2017) starring Hafsia Herzi.
- DirectorManel KatriStarsManel KatriA young director has a block about her film, that recounts two days that marked her life: her engagement, and the death of her father two days later.
- DirectorFakhri El GhezalIn 2013, three years before his jail sentence, Fakhri El Ghezal sets out with his mobile on an odyssey through the trivia of everyday life. In this intimate journal he films his wandering and solitude, always setting out and never arriving anywhere. He talks about death, mourning and isolation.
- DirectorIntissar AounStarsKhadija NssirBefore her wedding, the Djerbian girl locks herself up for a period of time, during which she follows a food and aesthetic cure, known as the rite of the "Hejba".
- DirectorThora LorentzenFares, a 14-year-old boy from Tunisia spends his time in the streets with his friend, Aziz. The thought of a better life in Europe is carrying Fares mind, while the local break dance school offers a concrete alternative to his daydreaming. But it takes courage to get on that stage and face the challenges in front of you.
- DirectorManel KatriAla, Ahmed and Mahdi are only seventeen years old yet they do not see their lives without rap music. Despite the conflicting aspect which disturbs their relations with their families and their close surroundings, which disapprove their choices, they chose to follow their passion for music and notoriety by crossing all the limits.
- DirectorMarwen TliliTells the personal story of the director who grew up in Tunisia and who has been exiled since his 18's. The film is an exploration through the story of three people of the relation to oneself and to each others within the complex context of immigration and exile.
- DirectorNabil ChikhiStarsKarim Ben ChaabeneIn Tunisia, oases are struggling to remain relevant in modern times, as the process of urbanization drives young people to cities in search of better life. A GEF/World Bank project aims to rehabilitate the oases ecosystem and increase agricultural productivity, thus reducing migration to the cities.
- DirectorAchref BrahamKhalil BrahamStarsAya CharfeddineSahar AtebFédy Ben SalemIt poses the dangerous effect of the industrial and the chemical pollution to environment in Ksibet El Mediouni, Monastir, Tunisia, along with the threat to the citizen's health across the entire bay of Monastir.
- DirectorMargaux FitoussiMo ScarpelliStarsAlbert MemmiHow do the fortresses we build to protect ourselves affect the people we become? EL HARA follows one man's break with the neighborhood of his youth, the Jewish quarter of Tunis, highlighting how such moments of rupture haunt us forever.
- DirectorYounes Ben HajriaStarsBehzad DoraniBetween France, Tunisia and Iran, the director is looking for Abbas Kiarostami's path through meetings with his collaborators.
- DirectorLassaad OueslatiStarsWalid BejiYasmine Ben AyedNacer Ben MiledThomas Shaw, Johann Ernst Hebenstreit and Mohamed Rachid Bey all lived in the 18th century and at a certain time, they were all on this land which we now call Tunisia and which we then called Barbaria - They will find in the same places as three centuries ago thanks to two young high school students.
- DirectorNawfel Saheb-EttabaAt the foot of Mount Chambi, a village, Garat Agueb. Forced to work to support their families or to help their parents, young girls and women prefer weaving Esparto grass rather than working in factories. In doing so, they hope to perpetuate a local craft they inherited from their ancestors.
- DirectorMohsen El GharbiStarsOmi MounaMohsen El GharbiGreat AuntA documentary about the transmission of violence, memory and courage of a 100-year-old great-grandmother.
- DirectorIsmaïl BahriAt first, Foyer seems to be a projection without film, where the only thing visible is a palpitating white screen. Voices accompany this white emptiness.
- DirectorShelby Ben BrahimA documentary film about the situation of single mothers in Tunisia.
- DirectorMajdi LakhdarAn experimental portrait on a suburb of Tunis during the Revolution. Caught up in the euphoria of freedom, young people celebrate the revolution but remain alert and secure their neighborhood. Suddenly, a shot sows panic. Kabsa, a neighborhood boy, disappears.