All Tunisia articles
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Reviews
’Behind The Mountains’: Venice Review
A Tunisian man becomes convinced he can fly in Mohamed Ben Attia’s intriguing third feature
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Reviews
‘Four Daughters’: Cannes Review
Kaouther Ben Hania enters Cannes Competition with a hybrid documentary portrait of a Tunisian mother and her daughters
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News
‘The Blue Caftan’ leads nominations in Critics Awards for Arab Films
Three categories have been added to this year’s awards.
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Features
In conversation: ‘The Blue Caftan’, ‘Under The Fig Trees’ directors talk tradition vs modernity and Oscar campaigns
The directors of The Blue Caftan and Under The Fig Trees — Morocco and Tunisia’s entries to this year’s Oscars — discuss how the collision of tradition and modernity in their work reflects a region in transition.
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Features
Arab Stars of Tomorrow 2022: Adam Bessa, actor (Tunisia)
Bessa won this year’s Cannes Un Certain Regard best performance award for ‘Harka’.
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Reviews
‘Alam’: Cairo Review
A Palestinian-Israeli teenager struggles to shake off the weight of history in Firas Khoury’s feature debut
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News
Reclaim the Frame x International unveils participants in Filmonomics training programme (exclusive)
The Filmonomics course will be led by director of Birds’ Eye View Melanie Iredale and training manager Simone Glover,
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Reviews
‘Ashkal’: Cannes Review
Detectives investigate a spate of burning deaths in a politically volatile Tunisia
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Reviews
‘Under The Fig Trees’: Cannes Review
Erige Sehiri makes her fiction debut with this gentle human drama set in a Tunisian orchard
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Reviews
‘Harka’: Cannes Review
Adam Bessa excels as a Tunisian street seller amidst the Arab Spring upheaval in this heartfelt dramatic debut
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Features
‘Harka’ producer Julie Viez on the Cannes title’s exhilarating Tunisian shoot
Un Certain Regard title Harka is the debut film by Egyptian-UK director Lotfy Nathan.
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News
First trailer for Tunisian Directors’ Fortnight thriller ‘Ashkal’ (exclusive)
Tunis-set police thriller revolves around the discovery of a series of badly burned corpses on a building site.
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14 Middle Eastern and North African films to tempt festival directors in 2022
Cannes 2019 discoveries Mounia Meddour and Maryam Touzani are among the MENA filmmakers with works in post-production.
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Features
“Getting the call ignited something like hope in me”: how making ‘Communion’ saved its team from despair
‘Communion’ is screening in competition at the Red Sea International FIlm Festival
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Reviews
‘Communion’: Red Sea Review
Writer-director Nejib Belkadhi stars as a man battling mental illness in the midst of the Covid-19 lockdown
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Features
Arab Stars of Tomorrow 2021: Zbeida Belhajamor, actress (Tunisia)
Tunis-born actress made her feature film debut this year in Cannes Critics’ Week closing film A Tale Of Love And Desire.
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Features
Erige Sehiri’s ‘Fig Trees’ promises rare snapshot of Tunisia’s rural youth
The fiction feature captures contemporary Tunisian society through the prism of teenage female fig pickers.
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News
‘Memory Box’, ‘Casablanca Beats’ head to inaugural Red Sea Film Festival
Saudi Arabia’s new film festival unveils first eight titles for Arab Spectacular section.
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Marrakech’s Atlas Workshops unveils selection for 2021 online edition
Fourth edition will showcase 24 projects hailing from the Middle East, North Africa and Africa.
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‘Gaza Mon Amour’ wins best film at Critics Awards for Arab Films
Annual award voted on by 160 critics from 63 territories.