A young student decides to have no more interaction with the world than is needed to minimally sustain life. His increasingly automaton-like behavior...

A group of French students are drawn into the psychological and sexual games of a mysterious man called Duchemin. Once they sample his "fear powder"...

At the end of the Spanish civil war, Fando, a boy of about ten, tries to make sense of war and his father's arrest. His mother is religious,...

On the evening of his birthday, the young painter Sadri walked out on his mistress Lisa, and the party planned in his honour. While ambling along...

Mahmoud Ben Mahmoud's first feature film.

"Ambassadors" is a euphemistic name given by the French to Arab "guest-workers," or imported laborers. In this film, the Arab workers are shown...

A documentary filmmaker goes to work on a project about Tunisians who have worked abroad. Many have married French women, and the couples try to...

The first of Nacer Khemir's highly-regarded Desert Trilogy that includes The Dove's Lost Necklace and Bab'Aziz - The Prince Who Contemplated His...

Mamluk is an unassuming, handsome young peasant who happens to have come along just in time to save the king from a fatal trap, and as a reward, the...

Directed by Abderrazek Hammami.

A determined young woman in a remote Tunisian city bucks tradition by studying for an academic degree, instead of accepting the time-honored,...