Tunisian cinema has quietly built an international reputation, with directors like Kaouther Ben Hania drawing global festival attention, her film The Man Who Sold His Skin earning an Oscar nomination for Best International Feature. Known for socially alert storytelling and strong individual voices, Tunisian films often wrestle with migration, identity and freedom. Browse Macca's reviews below.
Country Tunisia
There is a lot that is admirable about Rami Jarboui's The Bird's Placebo, a twenty-minute animated short from Tunisia with a genuinely novel story and a real heart to it. It is the sort of film I want to champion, and yet when I step
Rating: 3.0★
Ousmane Sembène spent his whole career pointing his camera at injustice, and Moolaadé turned out to be his last word. That alone gives it a particular weight. When a filmmaker of his stature, widely considered the father of African cinema, chooses this as the thing he leaves behind, you sit
Rating: 4.0★
There is a very specific, fascinating subgenre of cinema that blurs the line between documentary and performance, using real-life trauma as a vehicle for on-screen catharsis. I've sat through a fair few of these over the years. Think Salaam Cinema, or films like 1001 Frames, where
Genre Drama
★★★ — The Man Who Sleeps (1974)
Genre Drama
★★★½ — The Man Who Sold His Skin (2020)
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