Movies: Jamel Sassi

  • 1990
    Halfaouine: Boy of the Terraces

    Halfaouine: Boy of the Terraces (1990)

    Halfaouine: Boy of the Terraces

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    Twelve-year-old Noura dangles uncertainly in that difficult netherworld between childhood and adulthood. His growing libido has gotten him banned from the women's baths, where his mother took him when he was younger, but he's not yet old enough to pa...

    Halfaouine: Boy of the Terraces
  • 1996
    A Summer in La Goulette

    A Summer in La Goulette (1996)

    A Summer in La Goulette

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    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 Arab; Tina, French and Jewish. They would like to have their first sexual experien...

    A Summer in La Goulette
  • 2004
    Paroles d'hommes

    Paroles d'hommes (2004)

    Paroles d'hommes

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    This film tells the tragicomic destiny of three friends. The same age, they are all three of humble origins. The story begins in the 1970s in Nafta and evokes their childhood....

    Paroles d'hommes
  • 1993
    The Gulf War... What Next?

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

    The Gulf War... What Next?

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    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 eve...

    The Gulf War... What Next?
  • 1998
    Honey and Ashes

    Honey and Ashes (1998)

    Honey and Ashes

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    Set against the vibrant backdrop of contemporary North Africa, this drama follows three women as they navigate the complex interplay between tradition and modernity. Each woman, driven by her own desires for success and meaningful relationships, face...

    Honey and Ashes
  • 2017
    The Guest

    The Guest (2017)

    The Guest

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    Even though he's been living with Fouad for three years, Malik is going to marry Halima. Since Fouad doesn't accept this marriage, which would imply a total upheaval of their everyday life, Malik makes him promise not to attend the wedding, which wil...

    The Guest
  • 1992
    Bezness

    Bezness (1992)

    Bezness

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    Fred, a photographer, is in Tunisia to report on the « Bezness » (male prostitutes). Thanks to Roufa, Fred will discover this surprising environment where young men are confronted with the contradictions between tradition and modernity....

    Bezness
  • 2020
    Arab Blues

    Arab Blues (2020)

    Arab Blues

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    Selma, a psychoanalyst, deals with a cast of colorful new patients after returning home to Tunisia to open a practice....

    Arab Blues
  • 1992
    Les Zazous de La Vague

    Les Zazous de La Vague (1992)

    Les Zazous de La Vague

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    In Tunis, Fethi, a pretty face like Brando, and his friend Bannour, naive and shy, are employed in the pastry shop of the Italian Madame Rita. Their only concern is picking up Souad and her cousin Latifa in their convertible to take them for a ride "...

    Les Zazous de La Vague
  • 2019
    Noura's Dream

    Noura's Dream (2019)

    Noura's Dream

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    With her abusive husband in jail and a coveted divorce pending, hardworking Noura can almost grasp a happy, new life with lover Lassaad — but when the best-laid plans are upended, Noura must tap her unshakable will to fulfill her dream....

    Noura's Dream
  • 2012
    What the Day Owes the Night

    What the Day Owes the Night (2012)

    What the Day Owes the Night

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    Algeria, the 1930s. Younes is nine years old when he is put in his uncle's care in Oran. Rebaptized Jonas, he grows up among the Rio Salado youths, with whom he becomes friends. Emilie is one of the gang; everyone is in love with her. A great love st...

    What the Day Owes the Night
  • 2004
    Kelmat Rjal

    Kelmat Rjal (2004)

    Kelmat Rjal

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    Kelmat Rjal
  • 2010
    Dirty Laundry

    Dirty Laundry (2010)

    Dirty Laundry

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    Quiet Si Radji gets an idea when his screaming and unpleasant wife falls down from the balcony and sprain her foot. He will set up traps......

    Dirty Laundry
  • 2024
    How Kids Roll

    How Kids Roll (2024)

    How Kids Roll

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    In the midst of the war in Gaza during the Second Intifada in 2003, two 12-year-old boys, one Palestinian and one Israeli, along with a former surfing champion, form a friendship united by the love of water and learn from each other....

    How Kids Roll
  • 2021
    Pomme d'amour

    Pomme d'amour (2021)

    Pomme d'amour

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    In an imaginary and fantastic world approaching the setting of Paradise, we witness the unfolding of the trial of Adam and Eve following the theft of an apple. Within the court, comedy takes its place by adopting current ambiguities in the context me...

    Pomme d'amour
  • 2015
    The Purple House

    The Purple House (2015)

    The Purple House

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    Hsan, an unemployed man in his fifties, has been looking for work for quite some time, but without success. On his wife's insistence, he decides to go and see Ammar, a local politician, to ask for help. Ammar agrees to find him a job under one condit...

    The Purple House
  • 1969
    Why me?

    Why me? (1969)

    Why me?

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    The Tunisian short film "Pourquoi moi?" (علاش أنا؟), written and directed by Amine Chiboub, is a 13-minute social comedy produced in 2011 by Atlas Vision. Presented in Arabic with French subtitles, the film ironically explores how bad moods spread i...

    Why me?
  • 1969
    Mimesis

    Mimesis (1969)

    Mimesis

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    Bouchra, raised in a mausoleum dedicated to the saint Sidi Sardi, is confronted by a hostile imam who wants to turn her family home into a mosque. Her life is turned upside down when she meets Ahmed, a cameraman willing to help her make a film about ...

    Mimesis