
Néjib Belkadhi
Directing
Biography
After a degree in commercial and economic studies, Nejib Belkadhi began an acting career starring in cinema, theater and television series as well. In 1998 he directed and hosted successful TV shows for Canal+ Horizons in Tunis. In 2002, he founded with Imed Marzouk, Propaganda Production, an alternative and independent production company. VHS-Kahloucha is his first feature documentary. - IMDb mini biography by: Brian Cripe
Known For

After the death of Arbi Sallemi, his children are forced to confront long-buried tensions, family rivalries, and financial struggles. What begins as a father’s attempt to reunite his fractured family soon turns into a battle over inheritance, as his children navigate grief, resentment, and personal ambition. With secrets unraveling and conflicts escalating, the fight for what remains threatens to tear them apart.
El Fetna

The humorous and dramatic lives of a group of neighbors in the late nineties during the month of Ramadhan.
Suitors at the Door

It tells the historical events that took place in the last years of the reign of reformed reformer Ahmad Bey I (ruled between 1837 and 1855), including reforms and reforms of Khairuddin Pasha in Tunisia and the political, financial, economic and social crises experienced by the Tunisian country.
Tej El Hadhra

The series tackles the issues of marital infidelity and class difference, through the story of a man who discovers that his son, Bayrum, is not biologically his.
Lylet Shak

An 18 year old on the island Djerba, Aicha, is married to Said, who works in Tunis for much of the year. Aicha breaks with tradition and decides to join Said in Tunis, weaving rugs to make money. Said asks that she give him a son, so Aicha lives under the rule of her mother-in-law.
The Season of Men

Torn between the life he thought he could leave behind in Tunisia and the life he’s created for himself in Marseille, a man finds himself at a crucial crossroads, in Nejib Belkadhi’s latest.
Look at Me

Larger-than-life characters populate director Nejib Belkadhi’s spellbinding combination of film noir and magic realism, which follows a downtrodden orphan — now grown but still saddled with a cruel nickname — who has a reversal of fortune and takes on the thugs who control his ghetto.
Bastardo

Free and a multi-talented artist, Habiba Msika was one of the brightest stars of her time, the twenties. Inspired by the real-life of the artist, the film evokes the last years from 1927. Punctuated by the jolts of a changing time, this tumultuous stage in Habiba Msika's life was branded by the love that Mimoun, a wealthy landowner, and Chedly a young poet from a good family, both dedicated to her. In Berlin, during a triumphant tour, she meets the oriental music star, the Iraqi Baghdadi, and is introduced to Parisian life by Peter, and a dandy of disconcerting charm. Back in Tunis, Habiba Msika's life is carried away by the frenetic whirlwind of success, controversies, and thwarted passions until the final tragedy of her death.
The Fire Dance
Estranged brothers Youssef and Idris have travelled from Quebec with his wife Elissa, reunited at their remote family home in the forest of Aïn Draham in northern Tunisia, where a dark, long-buried family secret surfaces.
The Sleeping Grotto

Documentarian Nejib Belkadhi trails amateur Tunisian filmmaker Moncef Kahloucha as he makes his latest feature, Tarzan of the Arabs.
VHS - Kahloucha
Dali is a full-time caretaker for Douja, his Down syndrome daughter. One day, and against the advice of his wife, Dali decides to take Douja to the amusement park called ASTRA. In this park, a weird and inhospitable world awaits them .
Astra

Habib takes his family on a trip across Tunisia, to Zarzis, Habib's native region, to spend the summer vacation together. He tries to beautify the image of his homeland and embellish the adventures but as the journey progresses by car they will be confronted with increasingly improbable situations.
On the road

Life under lockdown: Sara works from home, helping people distressed by COVID-19. Her husband Kais needs constant antipsychotic medication but has run out of his supply. Outside, the city is like a ghost town. How will they survive this confinement without sinking into depression? Can their marriage ever return to normal?
Communion
The protagonist is doomed from the very first sequence and goes slowly towards his death.
Tomorrow I Burn

A documentary on the pioneering and satirical Tunisian television show "Chams Alik" (1999-2001).
Chams Alik: The whole Story

On a forgotten road far from the city, Sammy and Lilia find themselves facing a group of gravediggers
السماء تصيح

Ghassra, an Arab taxi driver faces difficulties answering nature’s call. He wants to relieve himself by a tree, but is challenged by the election candidate, the soccer fan, the extremist and the policeman.