Nouri Bouzid

A woman (Rabia Ben Abdallah) and her two daughters return to the female community on the island of Djerba from Tunis, where her husband works.

As Alia, the daughter of a beautiful servant Khedija, grows up in the Kings Palace at the end of the French colonial rule in Tunisia, she realizes the sexual favours required of her mother and other servants. (imdb)

In the ensuing days before his wedding bridegroom Hachemi faces both the anxieties of the future and the shadows of the past. (imdb)

Three modern North African women on the brink of self-awareness discover the power of friendship. (arabfilm.com)

Omrane (Ahmed Hafiane) is a dour man who makes his living supplying young maids to rich city folk. He gets the girls from poverty-stricken villages, promising their parents he will protect their chastity. Although this arrangement at first seems purely exploitative, it is gradually shown to be much more ambiguous. (variety.com)

A coming-of-age comedy/drama set in Tunisia. Twelve-year-old Noura is an impressionable boy who must learn to reconcile two conflicting worlds - the loving world of Moslem women and the vastly different, harsher world of men - while also dealing with his own budding sexuality. (imdb)

Summer, 1967. La Goulette, the touristic beach of Tunis, is the home of three seventeen-year-old girls; Gigi, a Catholic of Sicilian heritage, Meriem, Tunisian and Arab and Tina, French and Jewish. They want to have their first sexual experience this summer, challenging their families' belief systems. Their fathers, Youssef, Jojo and Giuseppe are old friends and their friendship could be in crisis because of the girls, while Hadj, an old rich Arab, would like to marry Meriem. (imdb)

A young prostitute befriends a French photographer sent to do an exposé. (imdb)

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.