This playfulness with form and narrative, Guellaty says, defies Western audiences' expectations of what a Tunisian film looks like. "People want to see belly dancing and mosques in our movies.

By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief The film tells the story of Olfa Hamrouni, a Tunisian mother whose two eldest daughters left the country to join the Islamic State in Libya, never to be ...

So I think that the movie's success is because the movie is tackling very universal topic while being very Tunisian, very local at the same time. FADEL: Tunisian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania on ...

The Tunisian cinema scene was always at the vanguard of Arab film production in terms of breaking cultural social taboos. Netflix is set to broadcast 44 Arab movies, including four Tunisian films ...

On the evidence of “Four Daughters,” a formally daring, emotionally gripping new movie from the Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania (of the Oscar-nominated “The Man Who Sold His Skin ...

The Tunisian director of "Under the Fig Trees", which portrays young harvest workers, said she hoped the award-winning drama film would "smash the cliche" that rural women are "miserable and closed".

That Tunisia needs the revenue is beyond dispute ... “Graham Chapman – who had recently quit drinking – worked his ass off on that movie,” Johnson recalled. “He was playing the lead ...

Sabry began her acting career aged 14 in the 1994 Tunisian movie Samt Al Qosour (Silences Of The Palace), and won her first Best Actress Award from the Carthage Film Festival at the age of 15.

I was in Rome with one of my shorts and an audience member told me my movie didn’t look Tunisian. What does that even mean? What is a Tunisian movie? What is an Italian, or a French movie?

This playfulness with form and narrative, Guellaty says, defies Western audiences’ expectations of what a Tunisian film looks like. “People want to see belly dancing and mosques in our movies.