Sonia Mankaï

Goodbye and See You Soon (2015)

60-something Henri meets 50-something Lila, and sparks fly - until they both must reconcile their very different lives and backgrounds. ...

Le piège afghan (2011)

A doctor on a French military base in Afghanistan, Nadia, in her thirties, works for the coalition of major Western powers. When she is sent on a mission to a village in a strategic location, her convoy falls into an ambush. Nadia and a soldier of Tajik or ...

Azur & Asmar: The Princes' Quest (2006)

Raised on tales of a Djinn fairy princess, Azur, a young Frenchman goes to North Africa in search of the sprite, only to discover that his close childhood friend, Asmar, an Arab youth whose mother raised both boys also seeks the genie. ...

La Sœur du Grec (2006)

Le prince (2005)

In Tunis, Adel a dreamer florist, falls in love with a pretty woman Dounia a director of a bank branch. To win her love, he uses the language of flowers and delivers her each morning the bouquets under a mysterious admirer. ...

La bostella (2000)

Taking its title from a popular 1960s dance craze, this digital video comedy concerns the exploits of a particularly odd fictional talk-show host, portrayed by real-life French talk-show sensation Edouard Baer. Baer -- who also directed and co-wrote the fi ...

Night of Destiny (1999)

Mr. Slimami is an Algerian retiree living in Paris who witnesses a murder while taking a walk one evening. He's spotted by the assailant, but Slimami manages to slip away before being caught. The victim turned out to be a prominent businessman, and police ...

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 ...

The English Patient (1996)

In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorers. As World War II unfolds, Almásy enters into a world of love, betr ...

Le Nombril du monde (1993)

Tunisia, early thirties, the young and plump Bajou, lives modestly with his parents. One day after a flood, his father suddenly disappears. Thanks to his uncle and his cousin Marcel, he moves with his mother Oumi to work for the wealthy landowner Mr. Scali ...