Fatima Ben Saïdane Movies

In late 2013, Zina and Djo, both in their twenties, come back to Tunisia from the Syrian front where they were sequestrated and raped. Zina was...

In southeastern Tunisia, Salem and Halima spend months waiting for news of their son Ahmed, who has been smuggled overseas to Italy.

Three brothers and sisters learn that the land they inherited from their father may be sold. If Latifa, the eldest, and Slim, the youngest, don't...

With no news of her companion Seif, a Palestinian fighter who disappeared in Beirut, Houria, a stewardess with an Arab airline, returns to Tunisia in...

This fable tells of an old fishmonger who dies and resuscitates several times. The man is a despicable character and his resurrections gives rise to...

Saâdia, a cleaning woman, and Mokhtar, a night watchman at construction sites, meet. It’s the discovery of love, for both of them, in a...

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...

Bouchra, raised in a mausoleum dedicated to the saint Sidi Sardi, is confronted by a hostile imam who wants to turn her family home into a mosque....

When Shams’ intersex identity is exposed, the young seamstress’ tranquil life unravels. Engaged in a steamy love triangle and targeted by...

The film forces us to confront a bipolar reality, once dark, once light, a reality too often repressed.

Djo, a boxing gym manager in the “Helal” neighborhood near Tunis, is searching for a champion to train in his old gym. He finds Yahia,...

Gianni, a former Italian owner of a movie theater in Bab El Fella, disappears leaving a manuscript that recounts important events to the local police...

A new cinematic vision puts the psychological and social disintegration of family relationships under the microscope. The decline of human feelings...

A fake producer, an armed group, masked bearded under the guise of religion and a corrupt cop in a place that is not precisely specified but whose...

A community of people rejected by society live in an abandoned residence located in a "Medina": an old town in Tunisia. Al Bab, a local criminal...

The story of the dysfunctional Tounsia family where Zakia, the matriarch of the family loves her son Selim to the point of enslaving the rest of the...

Najet, whom the doctors say that she will die soon, thus, she decides to take the rest of her life head-on, instead of giving in to self-pity.