Fethi Akkari

Sabil (2024)

Take My Breath (2023)

When Shams' intersex identity is exposed, the young seamstress' tranquil life unravels. Engaged in a steamy love triangle and targeted by an obsessive attacker, they escape to the capital city. Taking refuge with their lover's mystic cousin, they grapple w ...

Even God Won't Forgive (2022)

Nasser is a Tunisian serial killer who committed several murders in the 1980s; he was the country's last prisoner executed; this film follows his life, psychology, and history. ...

The Man Who Was Abandoned by God (2022)

The life path of an old man overcoming his loneliness after the death of his companion. ...

Semblables (2021)

A building guard in one of the neighborhoods of the capital Tunis recalls memories of his youth and the political events that led him to commit acts he regrets in his old age, and his fears of repeating them in light of the events that befell Tunisia after ...

The Last of Us (2018)

N is coming from the desert to reach the north of Africa and make an illegal crossing to Europe. Alone in Tunisia, he decides to cross the solitary sea. He steals a boat and begins his journey, but it soon sinks into the water. From that moment, N embarks ...

Bolbol (2018)

The Crow's Siesta (2018)

After losing their restaurant in the capital, Fatma and her husband Ibrahim are forced to run another restaurant in the desert. But in this universe of sand they meet Mokhtar, a wizard capable of digging up treasures that have been buried underground for c ...

As I Open My Eyes (2015)

Tunis, summer 2010, a few months before the Revolution: Farah, 18 years old, has just graduated and her family already sees her as a future doctor. But she doesn't have the same idea. She sings in a political rock band, has a passion for life, gets drunk, ...

Les Palmiers Blessés (2011)

Bizerte, winter of 1991. The first Gulf War is brewing amid international tension. A Tunisian writer entrusts the typing of an autobiographical manuscript to a young girl, Chama, who is looking for work. Inspired by the book's content, young Chama feels th ...

The Stadium (2010)

As he is walking back home after his team has lost a game, a football fan meets a stray dog. Ali will spend several hours with the dog wandering through a freezing cold Tunis. ...

Le Poisson Noyé (2008)

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 general curiosity. But superstition soon takes over in the villagers' hearts, they believe nature should re ...

Sabriya (1997)

This film explores the impact of the modern world on the traditional male society of the Maghreb. It is a film about men who prefer to live life as an abstract game and the free-spirited woman who changes everything. Said and Youssef have fulfilled a life- ...

Africa Dreaming (1997)

A series of six dramatic shorts, each from a different African country and all on the broad theme of "love in Africa. ...