Writing
Sophia Haoues
Place of birth
Montpellier, France
Known for
Writing
Credits
3 titles
Sophia was born in Montpellier, France and grew up from the age of 4 in Nabeul, Tunisia. From her mothers side she is French and from her fathers side she is Tunisian. She studied at the French high school in La Marsa/Tunisia and obtained her baccalaureate in literature and language. She then studied in France at the University of Social Sciences in Montpellier, before enrolling at the Fine Arts School in Tunis where she studied arts and crafts. She began her postgraduate studies at Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Audiovisuel in Toulouse before obtaining her doctorate at the Tunis Institute of Fine Arts with honours and a recommendation for publication of her thesis. In the meantime, Sophia joi…
Known for
4.0It is early summer, exceptionally hot and humid. Malek is living on the ground floor of an old building by the sea, single with no family ties. She is frequently mocked by her friends, Khaled and Azza, because of her passions for Roman mosaics and for spying on her strange neighbors. It is the day- to- day life she has chosen. But when night falls, the wild violent rowing she hears from behind her neighbors' closed door plunges her into fits of anguish. Dark memories resurface. She is sure there is a Monster living in her building. It sends her messages, enters her apartment when she is away. The day she met Jihène, a new tenant, who she immediately befriends, was the day the monster came knocking at her door.
Silentium
2025
NRThe film traces 24 hours of the life of an ordinary Tunisian, Mustafa, caught up with the absurdity of the system on the eve of the first free presidential elections.
Mustafa Z
2018
4.5The 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.
Porto Farina
2019
Behind the camera
4.0It is early summer, exceptionally hot and humid. Malek is living on the ground floor of an old building by the sea, single with no family ties. She is frequently mocked by her friends, Khaled and Azza, because of her passions for Roman mosaics and for spying on her strange neighbors. It is the day- to- day life she has chosen. But when night falls, the wild violent rowing she hears from behind her neighbors' closed door plunges her into fits of anguish. Dark memories resurface. She is sure there is a Monster living in her building. It sends her messages, enters her apartment when she is away. The day she met Jihène, a new tenant, who she immediately befriends, was the day the monster came knocking at her door.
Silentium
2025
NRThe film traces 24 hours of the life of an ordinary Tunisian, Mustafa, caught up with the absurdity of the system on the eve of the first free presidential elections.
Mustafa Z
2018
4.5The 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.
Porto Farina
2019