Filming Desire: A Journey Through Women’s Cinema Trailer
Moufida Tlatli was a Tunisian film director, screenwriter and editor. She is noted for her breakthrough film The Silences of the Palace in 1994, which won several international awards. She went on to direct two more films: The Season of Men and Nadia and Sarra.
Total trailers found: 19
02 January 1987
Focusing on key Arab films produced in the last 20 years. Férid Boughedir traces the development of the film-makers' concern to produce more socially aware cinema.
03 February 1989
Since childhood, Qays and Layla have been in love. Qays, being a poet, publicly sings of his love, crying it out joyously far and wide - just the sort of public proclamation which was strictly condemned at the time.
09 July 2000
The film consists largely of a series of interviews with female filmmakers from several different countries and filmmaking eras.
14 September 1990
Twelve-year-old Noura dangles uncertainly in that difficult netherworld between childhood and adulthood.
02 January 1980
Around 1980, in Tunisia, Si Béchir, an old craftsman, sold his house and left the medina of Tunis with his family to settle in a new city on the outskirts of the capital.
28 October 2004
Nadia is a 45 year old female professor at the University of Tunis. She is married and has a daughter of 18, Sarra.
30 September 1994
The death of a prince brings a young woman back to the palace where she was born into servitude. The lingering legacy is brought into light from behind frosted windows and velvet curtains.
15 May 1981
A portrait of two Palestinian women whose individual struggles both define and transcend the politics that have torn apart their homes and their lives.
02 January 1990
Two Palestinian lovers, parted during the 60s when he is imprisoned for resisting the Israeli occupation and she sorrowfully emigrates to the US, come together again in Jerusalem some 18 years later.
02 January 1979
After the battle of Kfar Chouba in Lebanon in January 1975, Larbi Nasri, a young Algerian journalist, was caught in the whirlwind of events preceding the civil war.
01 January 1989
In this Sufi tale, Nadia, a young Moroccan emigre returns from Paris to Fez to visit her dying father.
15 July 1976
Omar, a young man, lives a simple life with his family and suffers from loneliness. His life changes when he tries to bond with a girl he barely knows.
01 July 1983
On December 31, 1980, between England and the mainland, two anonymous passengers were fouled by the British and Belgian authorities and found themselves prisoners on board the car ferry connecting the two frontiers.
02 January 1982
Rich in environmental mood and ethnic color, this human drama chronicles the lives and rituals of a nomadic Berber tribe in the southern Tunisian desert, especially focusing on a son about to inherit the full mantle of leadership.
30 April 1986
A young teacher arrives to take over a village school isolated in the shimmering desert. Legendary figures materialize out of wells and the desert itself, groups of children hurry through a labyrinth of underground corridors, and the teacher is whisked away to a mysterious rendezvous and never returns.
13 September 2000
An 18 year old on the island Djerba, Aicha, is married to Said, who works in Tunis for much of the year.
02 January 1974
Kemal studies in the Sadiki boarding school. Since the death of his father who was murdered by a secret colonial organization, Kemal has doubts about the political situation of Tunisia.
02 January 1975
A 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.
02 January 1988
A determined young woman in a remote Tunisian city bucks tradition by studying for an academic degree, instead of accepting the time-honored, submissive role of her sex as a wife and housekeeper for some 'mustached man'.
