Mohamed Ben Attia

Directing

Mohamed Ben Attia

Born

1976-01-05 (50)

Place of birth

Tunis, Tunisia

Known for

Directing

Credits

12 titles

Mohamed Ben Attia (born January 5, 1976; Tunis) is a Tunisian director and screenwriter. After various jobs in audiovisual post-production, he was finally hired for twelve years in a commercial position and prospecting at a car dealership in Tunis. Trained at the writing workshop Sud Écriture in Tunis, he began writing and directing several short fiction films, starting with Romantisme : deux comprimés matin et soir in 2005. His second short film : Comme les autres (Kif Lokhrim) was produced in 2006. After Mouja, unveiled at the Carthage Film Festival 2010 and selected at CinemAfrica 2011 in Stockholm, he directed Loi 76 (2011), his fourth short film, then Selma (2013). He moved to feature …

Known for

Behind the camera

Hedi poster
6.7

Young Tunisian Hedi lives an ordered life in which he believes there can be no more surprises. His future will play out as other people have planned, until he meets a young woman named Rim at a hotel in Mahdia Hediand. An ostensibly personal story broadens into a panorama of a society in upheaval, an allegory about breaking away from traditions. And a film about the happiness and pain of freedom.

Hedi

2016

Hedi poster
6.7

Young Tunisian Hedi lives an ordered life in which he believes there can be no more surprises. His future will play out as other people have planned, until he meets a young woman named Rim at a hotel in Mahdia Hediand. An ostensibly personal story broadens into a panorama of a society in upheaval, an allegory about breaking away from traditions. And a film about the happiness and pain of freedom.

Hedi

2016

Dear Son poster
6.2

Extremism slices through a Tunisian family with the realization that their teenage son has become an ISIS fighter.

Dear Son

2018

Dear Son poster
6.2

Extremism slices through a Tunisian family with the realization that their teenage son has become an ISIS fighter.

Dear Son

2018

No artwork available
NR

In a movie theater, a man and a woman exchange a few words. Then, without them being able to see each other, each one of them plunges into his imagination by creating an image a little too idealized of the other.

Romantisme

2004

Loi 76 poster
NR

Can a law challenge a whole system and causes chaos? The testimonies of 4 characters make us discover the repercussions of this new law on their respective lives.

Loi 76

2011

Wave poster
NR

Over three periods of her life, a grandmother keeps repeating to her grandson the same apparently trivial story.

Wave

2010

Behind the Mountains poster
5.4

After spending four years in jail, Rafik has only one plan, take his son behind the mountains and show him his amazing discovery.

Behind the Mountains

2024

Behind the Mountains poster
5.4

After spending four years in jail, Rafik has only one plan, take his son behind the mountains and show him his amazing discovery.

Behind the Mountains

2024

Salma poster
9.0

After the accidental death of her taxi-driver husband, Salma decides to become master of her own life by taking over his taxi. She comes up against the Kafkaesque procedures of Tunisian bureaucracy and the offhandedness of the insurance industry, but refuses to let go and is not intimidated by anything. With quiet determination, she also faces the conservatism of her in-laws who, under the pretext of morality, continue to dictate the way she should behave. In order to create a better future for her daughter but also for herself, Salma is locked in a daily struggle with the world around her.

Salma

2014

Salma poster
9.0

After the accidental death of her taxi-driver husband, Salma decides to become master of her own life by taking over his taxi. She comes up against the Kafkaesque procedures of Tunisian bureaucracy and the offhandedness of the insurance industry, but refuses to let go and is not intimidated by anything. With quiet determination, she also faces the conservatism of her in-laws who, under the pretext of morality, continue to dictate the way she should behave. In order to create a better future for her daughter but also for herself, Salma is locked in a daily struggle with the world around her.

Salma

2014

Like the Others poster
NR

Between an unrewarding job and the daily routine visit to the cafe-shop for a water-pipe, K is eager to give up his condition of frustrated and introverted bachelor to seduce Chahra, the girl of his dreams. Through a series of very particular Chinese massages, he manages to shape his personality according to the ever-changing and whimsical demands of his entourage.

Like the Others

2006