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- A 25-year-old male student in Paris becomes indifferent to the world around him, and subsequently feels a strong sense of alienation and hopelessness.
- A group of French students are drawn into the psychological and sexual games of a mysterious Dutchman. Once they sample his "fear powder" the students experience a series of hallucinations.
- A teacher is assigned to a remote desert village that is obsessed with a mysterious buried treasure and whose children are cursed to wander the desert.
- At the end of the Spanish civil war, Fando, a boy of about ten, tries to make sense of war and his father's arrest. His mother is religious, sympathetic to the Fascists; his father is accused of being a Red. Fando discovers that his mother may have aided in his father's arrest. Sometimes we witness Fando imagining explanations for what's going on; sometimes we see him at play, alone or with his friend Thérèse. Oedipal fantasies and a lad's natural curiosity about sex and death mix with his search for his mother's nature and his father's fate. Will Fando survive the search?
- In this semi-autobiographical film, black soldiers help to defend France, but are detained in prison camp before being repatriated home.
- In the ensuing days before his wedding bridegroom Hachemi faces both the anxieties of the future and the shadows of the past. His best friend, Farfat, is the topic of street graffiti and local gossip, which calls his manhood into question. This ripples out to affect Hachemi for, unbeknownst to anyone, as apprenticed youths they were molested by Ameur, the local carpenter. Farfat is banished from his father's home and the shared secret between the two friends threatens to undo more than just the wedding, but their very lives.
- In the Goutte d'Or neighborhood of Paris, North African immigrants share a tiny apartment among their French neighbors. The two communities get along uneasily, their relationship rife with misunderstandings and mutual offense.
- Just after telephone communication is restored between the warring East and West sides of Beirut, two old college lovers, one Christian, the other Shiite, whose efforts to meet have dismally failed, finally make contact. But as Zeina is leaving for the U.S. the next day, they record their innermost feelings during the night, promising to exchange tapes at the airport. It is as if each side of the city were trying, in vain, to be heard by the other. The monologues, by the well-known writer Ahmad Baydoun, which form the basis of this acutely observed, moving film, have acquired classical status in Lebanese cinema.
- Mamluk is an unassuming, handsome young peasant who happens to have come along just in time to save the king from a fatal trap, and as a reward, the king offers him the amount of land he can mark off by walking around in one day but he must return to the starting point before sunset.
- The story of Hadjis, a former professor of philosophy, who came to live in the midst of a poor community in the Tunisian suburbs, far from Western civilization.
- Infantryman Jean Froissard is sentenced to two years in Biribi Military Prison in North Africa. He seems to get along, but as incompetence, corruption and sadism of his superiors (which include sexual abuse of the prison inmates) force him and others into rebellion. Court martial ensues ...
- Ommi Traki is an old woman, active and mingled with everything, who arranges everything in her family and in her neighborhood. Around her are her husband Salah, who is content to observe with a mocking air the result of the interventions of his wife, the spoiled son Ali, a young man whom she still considers as a child, the good Zouzou.
- A look at 20 years of African Cinema. The Featured extracts are: 'Les Bicots-Negres'(d. Med Hondo) 'Borom Serret' (d. Sembene Ousmane)1966 'La Noire de...' [Black Girl] (d. Sembene Ousmane)1966 'Soleil O' [Sun O] (d. Med Hondo) (Mauritania)1969 'Saitane' (d. Oumarou Gonda) (Niger)1973 'The Money Order'1968 'Amanie' (d. Gnoan M'Bala) (Ivory Coast) 'Ceddo' (d. Sembene Ousmane)1977 'Touki Bouki' (d. Djibril Diop-Mambety) (Senegal)1973 'Muna Moto' (d. Dikongue-Pipa) (Cameroun)1975 'News from the Village' (d. Safi Faye) (Senegal)1975 'XALA' (d. Sembene Ousmane)1975 'Baara' (d. Souleymane Cisse) (Mali)1978 'The Chapel' (d. J.M. Tchissoukou) (Congo)1980 'L'Exile' [The Exile] (d. Oumarou Ganda)1980 'Ajani Ogun' (d. Ola Balogun) (Nigeria)1976 'Djeli' (d. Fadika Kramo Lancine) (Ivory Coast)1981 'Wend Kuuni' (d. Gaston Kabore) (Upper Volta)1981 'Fenye' [The Wind] (d. Souleymane Cisse) (Mali)1982
- In a poor and isolated Tunisian community, the chief's daughter learns that her husband's body has been returned dead, from a foreign land.
- A series of mysterious thefts of jewelry are occurring in many museums in Europe.
- Pierre, a young man of Brussels, has lost his job. Unbeknowst to Barbara, the woman he lives with, he has become a pickpocket to survive. He works in partnership with a young Tunisian immigrant he meets every Sunday in an abandoned bus where they share the loot of the week. One day, Pierre finds his accomplice dead in their hiding place. Pierre suddenly realizes that he does not know much about his dead friend. Taking possession of his identity papers, Pierre decides to go to Tunisia to find out who his friend actually was.
- Tunis in 1980, A family leaves the old city, the Medina of Tunis to settle down in one of the new populated cities on the outskirts of the capital.
- Based on director Néjia Ben Mabrouk's own experiences growing up. Sabra refuses to be reduced to a traditional domestic role in mid-1980s Tunisia. With the reluctant support of her mother, she seeks an education, while facing intense pressure and scrutiny from the male-dominated community.
- A documentary filmmaker goes to work on a project about Tunisians who have worked abroad. Many have married French women, and the couples try to adjust to France after many years in Tunisia. The man decides to forego the film in order to address the personal and social concerns of the people.
- In a fishing village in southern Tunisia, Regaya, a beautiful young woman whose husband dies, refuses remarriage. Yet this is what a woman must do in Muslim society. Her father emigrated to distant France can only speak of his own suffering. She tries with her courage and her body to live her independence without breaking with her culture, her rituals and her traditions. With Fettah, the man whose thoughts she takes, she will try to live a new love away from all.
- Traces the history of Tunisia since 1881, the date of the establishment of the French protectorate, until independence in 1956 and the proclamation of the republic in 1957. This film tells the story of the Tunisian national movement.
- A group of mercenary soldiers from an African republic are hired to transport a cargo of weapons and ammunition and lead it through the desert to a revolutionary group that seeks the liberation of their country. Among the mercenaries there are soldiers from Biafra and other battle zones. The crossing will be marked by danger and disputes between the members of the expedition, which will greatly hinder the success of the expedition.
- Hamida (Amor Aquint) is a poor young Arab boy who is befriended by Renaud (Francis Lefebvre), the grandson of a wealthy plantation owner (Jean Davy). The boys become fast friends in spite of the colonial system that encourages separating the two cultures. When Hamida dies because of medical neglect, Renaud feels the first pangs of social and cultural injustice. His first stirrings of social awareness have Renaud vow not to be prejudiced like his grandfather in this sentimental drama with an anti-colonialist message.
- The film takes place at an indefinite time, probably at the beginning of the twentieth century. The young Khlifa, bald because of ringworm, was able to freely enter female circles as courier-messenger and enjoy the benefits of this situation. But one day, his hair starts to grow and he has to leave his usual environment. He then asks his boss, the diviner Boubaker, to return his illness.
- Tthe story addresses the issues of unemployment and rural exodus in independent Tunisia and It denounces the inequalities between the city and the rural area.
- A group of friends get together for a meal on the eve of the Tunisian cup match. Mustapha supports one team, but bets on the other, so either way he cannot lose.
- To reveal this world of Football - sports phenomenon but, also social - the film chooses two complementary routes. The first route goes through the life of the players of the National Team of Tunisia (year 1977-1978) and its coach Abdelmajid Chetali. We see them, thus, evolve in their daily existence at home and in the field. The second itinerary tells the story of two teenagers, Khaled and Hichem, who, from popular neighborhoods, follow, in fantasy, the existence of these players: their idols. These two parallel tracks lead us, in this year 1977-78, to the grandiose spectacle of the match Tunisia / Egypt. And from there, we follow the Argentine epic of the Tunisian national team: its first participation in a world cup, become "legend".
- A diver takes us to the abyss (underwater world)
- A couple of tourists discover a secret passage in the amphitheater of El Djem. It is a door of time which projects them in the East of the 1001 nights. They are chased by a giant with a wooden leg, guardian of time, as they enter a mysterious library that houses all the knowledge of the wise Arabs of the Golden Age of Islamic sciences.
- Adventure under the sea takes the viewer to the origins of diving up to the present day. This short movie is following the history up from the 15th century with the first Turkish military divers to the invention of the Cousteau-Gagnan diving suit in 1948.
- Champions is a short documentary out of the archive. Old black and white pictures were edited from the 35mm National Archives, presenting 50 years of Tunisian sports among which are boxing, judo, football, cycling from the early 1930s to the mid- 1980s.