Riadh Hamdi

When Mariam, a young Tunisian woman, is raped by police officers after leaving a party, she is propelled into a harrowing night in which she must fight for her rights even though justice lies on the side of her tormentors.

2059, Tunisia. A biochip regulates memory and suppress emotion. Hypnotherapy is forbidden, but Taha secretly consults a hypnotherapist. He is a pathos-smith: through poetry, he forges for others the emotions they can no longer feel. While under hypnosis, Taha crosses a forest and reaches a house without electricity and infestes with bedbugs, surveilled by a taciturn, curious neighbour. Inside, a man and two women are preparing a suicide attack. The woman chosen to carry the bomb is pregnant: their leader has ruled that a fetus under three months has no soul. In the haze of hallocinogenic pills, Taha understands: the fetus is himself. Police storm the house; his mother sets herself alight.

Meet Amadeus, a charming 50-year-old Italian antique dealer, who finds himself smitten with the stunning Tunisian beauty, Betty (Badra), a woman much his junior. But as their relationship blossoms, a new challenge arises – the in-laws smell opportunity, envisioning a wealthy, doting son-in-law. And an Imam throws a curveball, demanding Amadeus undergo circumcision and convert to Islam. In this cross-cultural clash, will the power of love prevail, or will tradition and family obligations tear the couple apart?

A night of insurrection in Tunis. Nothing is working anymore. Madness has taken hold of the capital and its suburbs. A kind of divine will brings Baya, Mosmar, and Oueld Janet together with the old man on the road to Tunis. Walking through the night, they decide to fight injustice.

It all started when the Islamist extremist "Chokri" attacked the rehearsal space of his sister "Hasna", actress and singer by trade. Threatened with death by her brother, condemned in absentia and whom she believed to be abroad, "Hasna" has only one solution before her: to flee the country clandestinely at any cost at the risk of her life with other women and men she will meet in this dangerous adventure ... Lack of visa.

The Tunisian short film "Pourquoi moi?" (علاش أنا؟), written and directed by Amine Chiboub, is a 13-minute social comedy produced in 2011 by Atlas Vision. Presented in Arabic with French subtitles, the film ironically explores how bad moods spread in an urban environment.

The film tells the story of a man, Aly, in need of a child, back in his native country to marry his first cousin - a marriage arranged by their respective parents.