Raouf Ben Amor

This TV film is a documentary about a part of Abdelaziz El Aroui’s life as a journalist during the colonial period. We all knew in our childhood El Aroui as a storyteller and columnist and we loved him, only he is more than that...

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The sudden disappearance of a well-known investigative journalist and public figure intrigues everyone. Malek his best friend and the last person to have seen him. He is seized with grief and panic that attracts attention. At the same time, he is responsible for revealing the truth and finding him...

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As Yahia is imprisoned for killing Maryam, he serves his sentence, and decides to look for the real killer to clear his name.

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Set in the 1940s during World War II and before Tunisia's independence, the series reflects the Tunisian resistance to French colonialism, whether by the people (through the "Fellagha" group) or the trade union, emphasizing all aspects of that period and the social, economic, and political events.

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Ali is an old and poor tailor from Tunis who spends his time looking for a buried treasure in an underground gallery in his house. One day, he finds himself stuck with his wife and children under the rubbles after the collapse of their home. That's when he must learn to take care of them by taking them to the underground shelter. He must fight and look for a way to save them before it's too late.

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It tells the historical events that took place in the last years of the reign of reformed reformer Ahmad Bey I (ruled between 1837 and 1855), including reforms and reforms of Khairuddin Pasha in Tunisia and the political, financial, economic and social crises experienced by the Tunisian country.

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Amel is a young photographer. When she loses her husband, her life changes. Encouraged by her father-in-law, she takes a taste of life by photographing street boys. Without fear of being scandalous, she makes the choice to look at men as men look at women.

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Four women meet at Dar Joued on the eve of Independence. With different ages and social conditions, they are condemned to live together under the authority and injustice of their jailer: "El Jaida". They will share memories of the outside world, joy, emotions and distress of their daily lives.

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After more than two decades working for Tunisia national public radio, Youssef is on his way to retirement. Somewhere in the town of Sidi Bouzid, a young man sets himself on fire. Youssef is viciously cut off broadcasting during the last issue of "Tunis by night". As he leaves the radio station, he gets picked up by a police patrol car waiting for him and he spends a few hours in police custody. Amal (his wife) finds refuge again in prayer and the elder brother Amin, tries to put his family's pieces back together as well as he can. Their youngest daughter Aziza lives completely disconnected from the pace and values of her family. She cuts her veins after a cascade of problems. Revolted but silent, Youssef takes refuge at the "Saint George", the adjacent bar he has been a patron forever. He empties his mind after emptying a few bottles of wine. Youssef then runs away from his family to be engulfed by a city he does not recognize anymore.

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Hind, a popular television show producer and presenter, falls in love with Lassaad, a police commissioner investigating a murder of a building contractor. In the process, they discover a network of Jihadist smugglers to Syria.

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Desperate by the refusal of the film commission, Chahine wonders how he will do to find the money necessary to achieve the police comedy he has in mind. He then has the crazy idea to go find him where he is: in the trunk of a bank. Aided by his two accomplices (his producer and his cinematographer), he scripted and directed the burglary, The accomplished heist, the three accomplices, forced to live hidden in an apartment while waiting for things to settle down, will go theatrical revelations .

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Following a painful childbirth, Zakia, a young woman from the Tunisian bourgeoisie becomes dependent on the Khochkhach plant (Poppy). After a few years of slow descent into the hell of dependence, she will meet in a Khémais asylum, with whom she will rediscover the taste of loving and living.

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The film forces us to confront a bipolar reality, once dark, once light, a reality too often repressed.

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An Odyssey (2001–2004), inspired by Abdelaziz Belkhodja’s novel, The Ashes of Carthage, and considered Tunisia’s first film in the thriller genre, offers a critical perspective on transnational trafficking in art and cultural objects. The events revolve around smuggling antiquities and artifacts in Tunisia, where an international gang seeks to steal the statue of the famous commander Hannibal and smuggle it via the Carthage ship to a European country.

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Three well-educated North African women cope with sexual stereotyping in modern Tunisia. Amina a married Muslim woman living in Tunis with her two daughters. Even though she is allowed certain freedoms as a Muslim woman this is curtailed when she meets her old friend from school Aida.

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Yaasin, a policeman from Tangier who has almost become an alcoholic, spends most of his time in an exclusive brothel. Several characters arrive in the city at the same time: the millionaire Eric Burns; the German woman Eva Miller who, with her little daughter Gudrun, makes herself a living by doing frauds and small thefts; the smart gangster Rustum Wadi who is looking for a talisman that at that moment is in the hands of Andrews, a homosexual British collector. Yaasin is supposed to protect Burns, but when Andrew's corpse appears the case takes an unexpected turn.

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The humorous and dramatic lives of a group of neighbors in the late nineties during the month of Ramadhan.

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When Poppy Carew is faced with having to organize a funeral by herself, she finds new strength and learns much about love's true meaning. Adaptation of the novel by Mary Wesley.

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Free and a multi-talented artist, Habiba Msika was one of the brightest stars of her time, the twenties. Inspired by the real-life of the artist, the film evokes the last years from 1927.
 Punctuated by the jolts of a changing time, this tumultuous stage in Habiba Msika's life was branded by the love that Mimoun, a wealthy landowner, and Chedly a young poet from a good family, both dedicated to her. In Berlin, during a triumphant tour, she meets the oriental music star, the Iraqi Baghdadi, and is introduced to Parisian life by Peter, and a dandy of disconcerting charm. Back in Tunis, Habiba Msika's life is carried away by the frenetic whirlwind of success, controversies, and thwarted passions until the final tragedy of her death.

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The second Gulf War from 1990 to 1991 represents in the collective Arab memory a turning point in regards to the Arab nationalism’s self-perception as well as a moment of deep historical and existential insecurity. Five Arab directors discuss the events from their personal perspective.

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A mysterious woman goes into a remote house of a family with a long history, but a set of secrets and stories that ties her to the family are revealed, and together they discover unexpected truths on a rainy night.

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Story of a teenage girl whose father dies. She goes to live with her father's friends, a couple. As a sort of revenge on her Father, whom she hates for abandoning her and her mother, she seduces Murray Head, ruining his life. From destroying his and his wife's lives, her own life is reborn.

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This film raises a cry of alarm against the plan to destroy the Municipal Theater of Tunis, a neoclassical building built at the beginning of the 20th century. In this film, Kalthoum Bornaz recreates selected scenes from the history of this historical theater. Therefore, having the opportunity to save one of the gems of Tunisia's heritage, which represents an architectural memory of the colonial era that marked the physical and ideological landscape of Tunisia.

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The wife of an American doctor suddenly vanishes in Paris. To find her, he navigates a puzzling web of language, locale, laissez-faire cops, triplicate-form filling bureaucrats and a defiant, mysterious waif who knows more than she tells.

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Pierre Renard is the blackboy of the writer George Vallier. At the time of a reception, the Italian actor Aldo Barazutti takes him for the writer and proposes to him to come to work with him in Tunisia with the development of a scenario. In fact Barazutti wants only to flee her wife to find her mistress Valerie. Misunderstandings when Vallier joined them. They must flee in the desert a jealous husband...

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Around 1980, in Tunisia, Si Béchir, an old craftsman, sold his house and left the medina of Tunis with his family to settle in a new city on the outskirts of the capital. With his son Ali and his niece Aziza, the old man discovers a new way of life in a Tunisia in full change. Aziza becomes friends with Aïcha, a young actress, while Ali continues to fail in his little businesses. The arrival of a sheikh from the Persian Gulf will fuel all the desires in the city, including those of Ali. But the dream is short-lived.

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In Tunisia, in the small village of Takrouna, Kassem dreams only of going to France just as construction begins on the Club du Soleil, a vacation camp for tourists.

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Three farmers decide to leave their village, where the spring has dried up, and move to the city. Salem, the youngest, rebels because he cannot find work. A young woman plays the role of conscience to the villagers who remain in front of their televisions watching the modern world, without changing their situation. Their difficult search for work raises the issues of unemployment, rural exodus, and emigration.

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Brahim Babai's first feature, And Tomorrow? (1971–1972), adapted from Abdelkader Ben Cheikh’s novel, is one of the first Tunisian films to investigate issues of social concern during the 1960s, such as rural exodus, unemployment, and famine. The story follows three rural farmers who leave their drought-stricken village for the city.

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