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Reviews‘Aicha’: Venice Review 495c35
Mehdi M. Barsaoui directs Fatma Sfar in an electric performance as a Tunisian woman on an unexpected journey of reinvention
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FeaturesWhy ‘Four Daughters’ director chose to blend documentary and fiction 571k25
Oscar-nominated for best documentary feature, Kaouther Ben Hania’s Four Daughters is based on a “spectacular and shocking” case of two missing girls. The Tunisian filmmaker talks about taking inspiration from fiction for her latest true-life story.
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Reviews‘Who Do I Belong To’: Berlin Review 481f1w
A Tunisian mother struggles to cope when her jihadist son returns from Syria
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MPM boards Lotfi Achour’s Tunisian drama ‘Red Path’ (exclusive) 5y6h3h
Film was showcased as a work-in-progress at Red Sea Film Festival.
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“Visibility allows you to be heard more and sooner for the next film, but funding is just as difficult,” says the Tunisian director.
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‘Behind The Mountains’: Venice Review b5p6d
A Tunisian man becomes convinced he can fly in Mohamed Ben Attia’s intriguing third feature
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‘Four Daughters’: Cannes Review 5b4t5w
Kaouther Ben Hania enters Cannes Competition with a hybrid documentary portrait of a Tunisian mother and her daughters
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‘The Blue Caftan’ leads nominations in Critics Awards for Arab Films 4u6q4n
Three categories have been added to this year’s awards.
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FeaturesIn conversation: ‘The Blue Caftan’, ‘Under The Fig Trees’ directors talk tradition vs modernity and Oscar campaigns 5x5d5a
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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Arab Stars of Tomorrow 2022: Adam Bessa, actor (Tunisia) 4ei2l
Bessa won this year’s Cannes Un Certain Regard best performance award for ‘Harka’.
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Reviews‘Alam’: Cairo Review 5f484q
A Palestinian-Israeli teenager struggles to shake off the weight of history in Firas Khoury’s feature debut
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Reclaim the Frame x International unveils participants in Filmonomics training programme (exclusive) 3k1h1k
The Filmonomics course will be led by director of Birds’ Eye View Melanie Iredale and training manager Simone Glover,
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‘Ashkal’: Cannes Review 59e68
Detectives investigate a spate of burning deaths in a politically volatile Tunisia
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‘Under The Fig Trees’: Cannes Review 154p15
Erige Sehiri makes her fiction debut with this gentle human drama set in a Tunisian orchard
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‘Harka’: Cannes Review 4c12n
Adam Bessa excels as a Tunisian street seller amidst the Arab Spring upheaval in this heartfelt dramatic debut
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‘Harka’ producer Julie Viez on the Cannes title’s exhilarating Tunisian shoot 6u6m40
Un Certain Regard title Harka is the debut film by Egyptian-UK director Lotfy Nathan.
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First trailer for Tunisian Directors’ Fortnight thriller ‘Ashkal’ (exclusive) 6x3q2r
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 3ty5b
Cannes 2019 discoveries Mounia Meddour and Maryam Touzani are among the MENA filmmakers with works in post-production.
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“Getting the call ignited something like hope in me”: how making ‘Communion’ saved its team from despair 5c4s69
‘Communion’ is screening in competition at the Red Sea International FIlm Festival
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‘Communion’: Red Sea Review 2o5110
Writer-director Nejib Belkadhi stars as a man battling mental illness in the midst of the Covid-19 lockdown
