Lassaad Dkhili
Writing
Biography
Lassaad Dkhili is a Tunisian film director who lives between France and Tunisia. He attended the Louis Lumière Film School in Paris and studied cinema at the University of La Sorbonne Nouvelle. His credits include several documentaries that went on to win several national and international awards and were broadcast on national and international TV.
Known For
Lallemani, a young gangster who has just come out of jail, dreams of wealth by selling prohibited alcohol in the lost city Jendouba, while Lenin, a cop, is losing his gun in a bus. Lallemani and his girlfriend Noor are turning Lenin’s life upside down and dragging him deeper and deeper into the dark underworld of modern Tunisia.
La Zone
Mouna, a young woman in her twenties, works as a ticket inspector and conductor for a private public transport company. For some time now, she seems to see her boyfriend Omar everywhere, even though he has emigrated illegally without telling her. It turns out that she really is seeing him, as he has been deported. She decides to look for him, finds him and settles the score with him in order to regain her ‘freedom’.
Normal
The story is set in Douz, a town in south-western Tunisia. Once a key route for sub-Saharan trade, it served the vast Eastern Erg and linked the Tunisian Sahara with that of Algeria, Libya, Niger and Egypt. The film tells the story of the M’Razig, the inhabitants of Douz—once nomads, now semi-sedentary—who find meaning in their lives through a thirst for life and a quest for eternity.