Tlamess

Ala Eddine Slim : 2019

After the death of his mother, a young soldier settled in the Tunisian desert obtains a week's compassionate leave. He will never come back, and will desert the army. On the run, he is chased by the police in a popular neighbourhood, and eventually dies when reaching the construction site of a villa. Years later, a young pregnant woman married to a rich business man lives in a fancy villa in the middle of a forest. One day, she accidentally meets a strange looking man. It is the ex-soldier, but he is different now. This encounter sets the beginning of a series of mysterious events, involving the ex-soldier, the pregnant woman and the future baby. Ala Eddine Slim's feature premiered at the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs at Festival de Cannes 2019.

Renaître

Jean-François Ravagnan : 2015
Rise

Sarah gets a phone call that is a blast from the past. Alone and lying to her nearest and dearest, she has only one thing in mind: to cross the Mediterranean and return to Tunisia. Driven by powerful emotions, she undertakes a journey in order to keep a promise she once made to the man she loved. Jean-François Ravagnan's short premiered in competition in the Pardi di domani section at Locarno Film Festival 2015.

Renaître – bande-annonce (vimeo)

À peine j'ouvre les yeux

Leyla Bouzid : 2015
As I Open My Eyes

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 joins "Joujma", a political rock band, has a passion for life, drinks, discovers love and her city by night, all against the wishes of her mother Hayet, who knows Tunisia and its dangers all too well. But in her love life as on the scene, Farah goes further and further, without suspecting the danger of a regime that watches and infiltrates her privacy. Hayet will do anything to protect her, even revive the wounds of her own youth. Leyla Bouzid's feature debut was winner of the Europa Cinemas Label Prize and the People's Choice Award when it premiered in competition at Venice Days 2015.