Raouf Ben Amor

Hades (2021)

The sudden disappearance of a well-known investigative journalist and public figure intrigues everyone. Malek his best friend and the last person to have seen him. He is seized with grief and panic that attracts attention. At the same time, he is responsib ...

Before It's Too Late (2019)

Ali is an old and poor tailor from Tunis who spends his time looking for a buried treasure in an underground gallery in his house. One day, he finds himself stuck with his wife and children under the rubbles after the collapse of their home. That's when he ...

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. ...

El Jaïda (2017)

Four women meet at Dar Joued on the eve of Independence. With different ages and social conditions, they are condemned to live together under the authority and injustice of their jailer: "El Jaida". They will share memories of the outside world, joy, emoti ...

Tunis by Night (2017)

After more than two decades working for Tunisia national public radio, Youssef is on his way to retirement. Somewhere in the town of Sidi Bouzid, a young man sets himself on fire. Youssef is viciously cut off broadcasting during the last issue of "Tunis by ...

Khoussouf (2015)

Flower of Oblivion (2006)

Following a painful childbirth, Zakia, a young woman from the Tunisian bourgeoisie becomes dependent on the Khochkhach plant (Poppy). After a few years of slow descent into the hell of dependence, she will meet in a Khémais asylum, with whom she will r ...

Junun (2006)

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

The Odyssey (2004)

An Odyssey (2001–2004), inspired by Abdelaziz Belkhodja's novel, The Ashes of Carthage, and considered Tunisia's first film in the thriller genre, offers a critical perspective on transnational trafficking in art and cultural objects. The events revolve ...

Girls from a Good Family (1997)

Three well-educated North African women cope with sexual stereotyping in modern Tunisia. Amina a married Muslim woman living in Tunis with her two daughters. Even though she is allowed certain freedoms as a Muslim woman this is curtailed when she meets he ...

Tangier Cop (1997)

Yaasin, a policeman from Tangier who has almost become an alcoholic, spends most of his time in an exclusive brothel. Several characters arrive in the city at the same time: the millionaire Eric Burns; the German woman Eva Miller who, with her little daugh ...

The Vacillations of Poppy Carew (1995)

When Poppy Carew is faced with having to organize a funeral by herself, she finds new strength and learns much about love's true meaning. Adaptation of the novel by Mary Wesley. ...

The Fire Dance (1994)

Free and a multi-talented artist, Habiba Msika was one of the brightest stars of her time, the twenties. Inspired by the real-life of the artist, the film evokes the last years from 1927.
 Punctuated by the jolts of a changing time, this tumultuous stage ...

The Gulf War... What Next? (1993)

The second Gulf War from 1990 to 1991 represents in the collective Arab memory a turning point in regards to the Arab nationalism's self-perception as well as a moment of deep historical and existential insecurity. Five Arab directors discuss the events fr ...

Confessions of the latter rain (1992)

A mysterious woman goes into a remote house of a family with a long history, but a set of secrets and stories that ties her to the family are revealed, and together they discover unexpected truths on a rainy night. ...

The Savage (1989)

Story of a teenage girl whose father dies. She goes to live with her father's friends, a couple. As a sort of revenge on her Father, whom she hates for abandoning her and her mother, she seduces Murray Head, ruining his life. From destroying his and his wi ...

Frantic (1988)

The wife of an American doctor suddenly vanishes in Paris. To find her, he navigates a puzzling web of language, locale, laissez-faire cops, triplicate-form filling bureaucrats and a defiant, mysterious waif who knows more than she tells. ...

L'Arme au bleu (1981)

It's Not Me, It's Him (1980)

Pierre Renard is the blackboy of the writer George Vallier. At the time of a reception, the Italian actor Aldo Barazutti takes him for the writer and proposes to him to come to work with him in Tunisia with the development of a scenario. In fact Barazutti ...

Aziza (1980)

Around 1980, in Tunisia, Si Béchir, an old craftsman, sold his house and left the medina of Tunis with his family to settle in a new city on the outskirts of the capital. With his son Ali and his niece Aziza, the old man discovers a new way of life in a T ...

And Tomorrow...? (1972)

Three farmers decide to leave their village, where the spring has dried up, and move to the city. Salem, the youngest, rebels because he cannot find work. A young woman plays the role of conscience to the villagers who remain in front of their televisions ...