Mohamed Driss

Acting

Mohamed Driss

Tunis, Tunisia

Mohamed Driss (born 1944) is a Tunisian writer, actor, and director of theatre. Since 1988, he has been the director of the National Theatre of Tunisia. He began his career in 1961 and has since then been a prolific actor on stage and screen. He has also directed several plays.

Acting credits

A Summer in La Goulette poster
6.1

Summer of 1967. La Goulette, a touristic beach of Tunisia, is the site where three seventeen-year-old girls live: Gigi, Sicilian and Catholic; Meriem, Tunisian and Muslim; Tina, French and Jewish. They would like to have their first sexual experience during that summer, challenging their families. Their fathers, Youssef, Jojo and Giuseppe, are old friends and their friendship will be in crisis because of the girls, while Hadj, an old rich Arab, would like to marry Meriem.

A Summer in La Goulette

1996

Halfaouine: Boy of the Terraces poster
6.4

Twelve-year-old Noura dangles uncertainly in that difficult netherworld between childhood and adulthood. His growing libido has gotten him banned from the women's baths, where his mother took him when he was younger, but he's not yet old enough to participate in grown-up discussions with the men of his Tunisian village. Noura's only real friend is a troublemaker named Salih -- the village political outcast.

Halfaouine: Boy of the Terraces

1990

Eclipses poster
NR

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.

Eclipses

2015

Noce d'été poster
7.0

Hamid is a journalist, in his late thirties and he sees his celibacy with his petty bourgeois family as an escape route so as not to resemble his own. His family wants to marry him at all costs to his neighbor Rym (30) to put an end to his hesitation, and the bad tongues that do not spare hardened single people. Not daring to oppose his family's decision to marry, Hamid prefers to avoid the atmosphere of preparations.

Noce d'été

2004