(Pre - 2000) Tunisian Feature Films | Female Lead Role
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- DirectorMahmoud Ben MahmoudStarsYasmine BahriHichem RostomLubna AzabalThe country has changed a lot in the absence of the father Wahid Haydar and the daughter Sofia, returning to Tunisia after a long stay in West Africa and after being separated from her French mother for ten years, the young Soufia arrives in Tunis heavily steeped in her African heritage, feeling trapped, now claims her way back to her mother.
- DirectorNouri BouzidStarsAmel HedhiliNadia KaciLeila NassimAmina 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 her old friend from school Aida.
- DirectorKalthoum BornazStarsRim TurkiMouna NoureddineAli MosbahThe 27 years old Nozha comes home with a sense of failure and despair following a long absence after marrying against her family's will.
- DirectorNadia FaresStarsNozha KhouadraSamia MzaliAmel Hedhili"Honey and Ashes" tells the stories of three women from contemporary North Africa. Caught between tradition and modernity, they seek success in their lives and in their relationships with men. Although their age and social backgrounds differ, their paths cross, bringing to light the multiple obstacles which society has placed in their way.
- DirectorFérid BoughedirStarsSonia MankaïAva Cohen-JonathanSarah ParienteSummer, 1967. La Goulette, the touristic beach of Tunisia, 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 experience during that summer, challenging their families. Their fathers, Youssef, Jojo and Giuseppe, are old friends and their friendship will be in crisis because of the girls, while Hadj, an old rich Arab, would like to marry Meriem.
- DirectorSelma BaccarStarsSouad AmidouFéodor AtkineNéjib BelkadhiFollows the last years of Tunisian singer Habiba M'sikar's life between 1927 and 1930 when she was at the peak of her glory and performed in the "soirées" of Tunis.
- DirectorMoufida TlatliStarsHind SabriGhalya LacroixNejia OuerghiAs she grows up, Alia (the daughter of housemaid Khedija) learns the secrets of the peaceful palace where she and her mother live.
- DirectorMoncef DhouibStarsMustapha AdouaniFatma Ben SaïdaneMohamed Ben SmaïlLocked in a room until the release of her fiance from prison, a young woman escapes with the help of his brother.
- DirectorFitouri BelhibaStarsNadia SamirAhmed SnoussiAhmed Ben SmailIn 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.
- DirectorNéjia Ben MabroukStarsOthman KhemiliFatma KhemiriMouna NoureddineBased 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.
- DirectorAbdellatif Ben AmmarStarsYasmine KhlatRaouf Ben AmorDalila RamesTunis 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.
- DirectorOmar KhlifiStarsHassiba RochdiAnissa LotfiZohra FaïzaThe film tells the story of two girls. Saadia was raped after fierce resistance, which allowed her to take revenge by killing her attacker, but the village men's council felt she had been provocative and sentenced her to death. She is shot and the women of the village, transgressing the tradition, follow her funeral procession. As for Selma, who loved Hedi, she sees her father forcing her to marry another man. His lover comes back hastily but drowns. Became crazy, she succumbs in turn.
- DirectorAbderrazek HammamiStarsZohra FaïzaFatma BahriHabib BelharethOmmi 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.
- DirectorRachid FerchiouStarsEwa SwannRichard LeducM'Rad BeyOn his birthday, Sadri walked out on his mistress Lisa, and the party planned in his honor. While walking along the beaches of Carthage in the dead of night, he sees a young woman rise up out of the waves. She told him her name was Yusra.
- DirectorFérid BoughedirClaude d'AnnaStarsAly Ben AyedUrsule PaulySophie VaillantThree sisters visiting their uncle in his island home, find themselves alone with the late uncle's manservant. Their relations reveal a dark side in all of them, and gender, racial, and class tensions that lead to situations of humiliation, domination and sex, and death.
- DirectorAhmed KhechineStarsAly BorginiHabib ChaariKhedija JenaouiA poor family abandoned by their father, an unemployed brother dreams to emigrate and sister who works in a factory, falls for a young mechanic who seduces and abandons her.
- DirectorAli AbdelwahabStarsOulayaZohra FaïzaHattab DhibAbbes, the best rider of the village, has fallen in love with a girl who is already engaged to Ahmed. She returns his love and marries him but the unhappy fiance will not hear of it and murders Abbes. He is arrested but soon released due to lack of evidence. Om Abbes, Abbes' mother, is furious and swears to take revenge on the killer. Three years later, a pilgrim arrives in another village and wins the confidence of all. In fact, this 'hadj' is none other than Om Abbes in disguise, in search of Ahmed.