Tunisia | Documentary Short Films

A guitarist, a bassist and a drummer, telling their stories as active musicians in the Tunisian music scene.

Only two words in the dark, on will see nothing, on there will hear only phone calls in all directions.

The director speaks of her home confinement through two antagonistic times: that of nature and that of human being.

Living in times of Coronavirus, Najib, a station master in Sidi Othman, for 20 years, he has lived to the rhythm of the passage of trains, but today time seems to have stood still.

Living in times of Coronavirus, March 2020, when you find yourself alone, when writing is not an easy exercise .

2013 year. Travel trip to Tunisian village Mahdia at the bank of Mediterranean sea.

In a spectacular environment, accompanied by an impressive soundscape, Younes Ben Slimane's film observes the manipulation of nature by man, the director works on the boundaries between art, architecture, photography and cinema, using an intimate framing and a beautiful image, he captures the beauty of his homeland in every shot.

Focusing on remembering and also the longing that they felt on the voyage through the shared footsteps of two rappers, Jojo M and Galaaa, and the director, before and after their migration from Redeyef in Tunisia to Nantes in France. Shot on Super 8, Fakhri El Ghezal's tender, musical and intimate film poetically retraces the journey of young Tunisian men arriving in Europe. In this melancholic and almost unreal universe, the feelings of travelers, from loneliness to friendship, run through the film. A glimpse of beauty to overcome the most difficult challenges.

Approachs a theme of youth violence in Tunisia, the characters define this term while describing their own thinking, some criticize, others seek a solution. Whether through words, music, dance or graffiti, all of these elements merge to express how today's youth perceive violence.

Activists and residents of Cap Bon (Ras ed-Dar), in al-Watan al-Qabli, North-Eastern Tunisia, testify to the threats hanging over the ecosystem of their region.

In a monastery, isolated from the rest of the world, different people come together and chose to lead a life based on silence and the prayer of daily work.

The personal photographer of the first Tunisian President tells a story about Habib Bourguiba's professional life and the special and historical moments that he shared with the President.

Traces the life and struggle of the great trade unionist Ahmed Tlili, who died over 52 years ago. He reveals the gray areas of this character through his son, a historian, who takes us on a journey to reveal the mysteries of his life and his struggle from 1940 until the mid-1960s, that the official writer of national history tried to erase and to let us know a human rights activist that the power of Bourguiba tried to erase from the national memory.

15-year-old Samah lives with her family in terrible conditions in a forest in north-western Tunisia. Suffering from her wretched financial situation, she takes her first steps in a life that will be identical to that of her mother and her forebears.

Presents the various stages in the production of wool and its transformation into yarn to make clothes, against the rhythm of the sound of the machines.

A young director has a block about her film, that recounts two days that marked her life: her engagement, and the death of her father two days later.

A painter, a space, an artist, a port. A rich encounter, an aesthetic query with complex identity extensions, happiness and torments of the gaze of an artist, an artist from Kélibia, Raouf Gara.

The film shows the worldview and enthusiasm of these young musicians of 13-18, whose passion for music sets them apart. They speak of their dreams, their daily lives, their passions and their native land that is trying to find a way forward. The buildings of the famous Lycée Bourguiba and the music of the Tunisian Youth Orchestra constitute the background.

Understanding Sufism, by its very nature, is experiential. It is a commonly misunderstood branch of Islam that is often typecast as esoteric, mystical, and far outside of mainstream practices. But in many Muslim countries, Sufism is deeply bound to national heritage and other artistic outlets. Zikr enables four people at a time to experience Sufism much as practitioners do in Tunisia and, together, participate in ecstatic music rituals and encounter new spiritual possibilities.

The director points her camera to the catastrophic ecological situation of the Gulf of Gabès, a city where the inhabitants fight to live an ordinary life in an extraordinary conditions.

In a retirement home in Tunis, old people awaits their time to pass, everyone goes to wait in their own way, but time never waits. In this space where we feel like a prisoner, we are witnessing absurd situations close to madness but these residents are far from being crazy, it is just their way of resisting this expectation.

Ouméma Bouassida is a Tunisian artist whose dream was to make graffiti. The veil that she decided to put on from a young age complicates things. She tells us how she went through preconceived ideas and the heavy gaze of her society to make her choices accepted.

Between disappointment and success, Sub-Saharan students in Tunisia open the doors of their daily lives, far from clichés.

Successive wars have torn them from their lands, their families, their loved ones. In the turmoil, they had to flee death and violence. Since 2011, thousands of Libyans have settled in Tunisia, sometimes alone, sometimes accompanied.

Revolves around the problem of the drinkable water in the mining areas in Tunisia and especially in the area of Redeyef.