Communion 2021
Life under lockdown: Sara works from home, helping people distressed by COVID-19. Her husband Kais needs constant antipsychotic medication but has run out of his supply. Outside, the city is like a ghost town. How will they survive this confinement without sinking into depression? Can their marriage ever return to normal?

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Digitus Minimus 2021
A father is a representative of a religious organization and has raised his daughter according to his faith. Both go on a mission - to convince a young man to join the organization, but the young man questions the reality of the believers. The man becomes committed to change the girl's beliefs. A surreal adventure in metaphysics begins through symbols of our dreams.

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Look at Me 2018
Torn between the life he thought he could leave behind in Tunisia and the life he’s created for himself in Marseille, a man finds himself at a crucial crossroads, in Nejib Belkadhi’s latest.

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Briska 2018
Awaking from a 300 year sleep, three spirits are faced with a very, very big choice.

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As I Open My Eyes 2015    star_border 6.6
Tunis, summer 2010, a few months before the Revolution: Farah, 18 years old, has just graduated and her family already sees her as a future doctor. But she doesn't have the same idea. She sings in a political rock band, has a passion for life, gets drunk, discovers love and her city by night against the wishes of her mother Hayet, who knows Tunisia and its dangers all too well.

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Un Conte Contemporain 2015
Dawn is breaking, a man is reading a letter, a fishing boat comes in from the open sea. A woman searches for a face in a crowded street. A woman gathers clothes, a girl looks for a response. An empty chair. The soft murmur of the waves.

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Salma 2014    star_border 9
After the accidental death of her taxi-driver husband, Salma decides to become master of her own life by taking over his taxi. She comes up against the Kafkaesque procedures of Tunisian bureaucracy and the offhandedness of the insurance industry, but refuses to let go and is not intimidated by anything. With quiet determination, she also faces the conservatism of her in-laws who, under the pretext of morality, continue to dictate the way she should behave. In order to create a better future for her daughter but also for herself, Salma is locked in a daily struggle with the world around her.

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Bastardo 2013    star_border 7
Larger-than-life characters populate director Nejib Belkadhi’s spellbinding combination of film noir and magic realism, which follows a downtrodden orphan — now grown but still saddled with a cruel nickname — who has a reversal of fortune and takes on the thugs who control his ghetto.

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A Doomed Generation 2012
Through the testimonies of five bloggers jailed a few days before the January 14th revolution in Tunisia, A Doomed Generation charts the struggle of cyber dissidents against Ben Ali’s censorship. This documentary traces the bloggers’ activism and mobilisation through the web and their influence over social media networks. It is also a report of the disillusionment of the Tunisian youth, who in the aftermath of the revolution, have been deprived of their aspirations for freedom and democracy.

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VHS - Kahloucha 2006    star_border 7
Documentarian Nejib Belkadhi trails amateur Tunisian filmmaker Moncef Kahloucha as he makes his latest feature, Tarzan of the Arabs.

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