Férid Boughedir

Sweet Smell of Spring (2016)

In 2011 Tunisia, as the Arab Spring awakens, unemployed graduate Aziz, nicknamed Zizou (Zied Ayadi), travels from his Saharan village to the big city of Tunis in search of a job. From television aerial installation to political intrigue, this fresh-faced y ...

Villa Jasmin (2008)

A compelling double love story about a French-Tunisian Jewish family. Henry returns to La Goulette, port of Tunisia, with his wife, in search of his family roots. The film explores his parent's history from the 1920s, and the impact of the Vichy Government ...

A Summer in La Goulette (1996)

Summer, 1967. La Goulette, the touristic beach of Tunisi, is the site where three nice seventeen-year-old girls live: Gigi, Sicilian and Catholic; Meriem, Tunisian and Muslim; Tina, French and Jewish. They would like to have their first sexual experience d ...

Halfaouine: Boy of the Terraces (1990)

Twelve-year-old Noura dangles uncertainly in that difficult netherworld between childhood and adulthood. His growing libido has gotten him banned from the women's baths, where his mother took him when he was younger, but he's not yet old enough to particip ...

Arab Camera (1987)

Focusing on key Arab films produced in the last 20 years. Férid Boughedir traces the development of the film-makers' concern to produce more socially aware cinema. Themes include the issue of Palestinian homeland rights and the nature of Arab identity. Th ...

Twenty Years of African Cinema (1983)

This documentary that recounts 20 years in the history of African cinema through interviews and excerpts from 18 films. ...

In the Land of Tararani (1972)

Anthology film portraying the stories from the collection Sleepless Nights by Ali Douagi. ...

Eden and After (1970)

A group of French students are drawn into the psychological and sexual games of a mysterious man called Duchemin. Once they sample his "fear powder" the students experience a series of hallucinations. ...

Unquiet Death (1970)

Three sisters visiting their uncle in his island home, find themselves alone with the late uncle's manservant. Their relations reveal a dark side in all of them, and gender, racial, and class tensions that lead to situations of humiliation, domination and ...

Of Skin and Men (2018)

Amel is a young photographer. When she loses her husband, her life changes. Encouraged by her father-in-law, she takes a taste of life by photographing street boys. Without fear of being scandalous, she makes the choice to look at men as men look at women. ...

Férid Boughedir: de l'Émotion Tunisienne au Rêve Universel (2016)

Férid Boughedir, the Tunisian film-maker and the journalist, historian and defender of the African and Arabic cinema, is filmed, through various situations and places between Tunisia and France, and more particularly around the preparation and during the ...

Tahar Chériaa: A l'Ombre du Baobab (2014)

Tahar Cheriaa: Under the Shadow of the Baobab documents the career of one of the core fathers of Pan-Africanism and founder of Africa's first film festival, the Carthage Film Festival. After Tunisian independence, Cheriaa used all his energy to bring the f ...

Sous les marches du palais (1991)

Arab Camera (1987)

Focusing on key Arab films produced in the last 20 years. Férid Boughedir traces the development of the film-makers' concern to produce more socially aware cinema. Themes include the issue of Palestinian homeland rights and the nature of Arab identity. Th ...