Halima Daoud
Actor
Movies9
Movie7.2DocumentaryDramaExplores the life and work of the psychoanalytic theorist and activist Frantz Fanon who was born in Martinique, educated in Paris and worked in Algeria. Examines Fanon's theories of identity and race, and traces his involvement in the anti-colonial struggle in Algeria and throughout the world.
Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask
1996 · 9 votes
Movie10.0ComedyOmmi Traki is an elderly woman who is active and involved in everything, organizing everything in her family and neighborhood. Surrounding her are her husband Salah, who contentedly observes the results of his wife's interventions with a mocking air; her spoiled son Ali, a young man she still considers a child; the maid Zouzou; and others. The film is inspired by the famous Tunisian television series of the same name from the 1970s.
Ommi Traki
1973 · 1 votes
MovieDocumentaryHistoryA pioneering film from Tunisia, Fatma 75 is the first non-fiction film by a Tunisian woman, a feminist essay film, and the first in a series of powerful films about strong female figures in the country. The film was made in the UN International Women's Year 1975, and has long been recognised as one of the most important films from North Africa, but has never officially been seen before due to censorship.
Movie7.5DocumentaryHistoryWith the help of state of the art special effects, this National Geographic documentary attempts to recreate what civilization looked like during the first 8,000 years that human beings lived on Earth.
Movie4.7DramaTunisia, 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, a talkative and boastful man.
Le Nombril du monde
1993 · 3 votes
Movie6.5DramaA workaholic father becomes sole parent to his two young sons, and finds it hard to relate to them, consumed as he is with his own grief.
Misunderstood
1983 · 13 votes
Movie7.0DramaMamluk 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.
MovieDramaFollowing 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 rediscover the taste of loving and living.
MovieHistoryDramaThe movie is about the subject of arrests and different forms of repression, physical and moral torture, that were faced by the Islamist opponents of Ben Ali's Regime and their families.