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In North Africa, Tunisia holds a long Mediterranean shoreline with southern desert behind it. A French protectorate until 1956 gave way to one-party rule, then the 2011 Jasmine Revolution that ousted the president and sparked regional protests, pushing street politics into film. Halfaouine: Boy of the Terraces watches Tunis from rooftops, while Nefta Football Club plays out in a southern town. Open Tunisia on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.
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Browse 11 books, 25 movies and 1 game set in Tunisia.

Halfaouine: Boy of the Terraces
Twelve-year-old Noura dangles uncertainly in that difficult netherworld between childhood and adulthood. His growing libido has gotten him banned from the women's baths where his mother took him when he was younger but…

Nefta Football Club
In the south of Tunisia two football fan brothers bump into a donkey lost in the middle of the desert on the border of Algeria. Strangely the animal wears headphones over its ears.

Hammamet
The last years of Bettino Craxi one of the most important and controversial italian leader of the 1980's.

Banzaï
Michel works there manically solving people's problems over the phone. He is about to tie the knot with his girl friend Isabelle an airline hostess. She flies all over the world he hates to leave the office. A series of…

Arab Blues
Selma a psychoanalyst deals with a cast of colorful new patients after returning home to Tunisia to open a practice.

Beauty and the Dogs
When Mariam a young Tunisian woman is raped by police officers after leaving a party she is propelled into a harrowing night in which she must fight for her rights even though justice lies on the side of her tormentors.

The Vultures
April 5 1943: a battalion of the Foreign Legion arrives in El Ksour Tunisia to escort a fortune in gold bars to the home front. A German ambush awaits and all but four die. Thanks to the street smarts of Sergeant…

A Son
Tunisia summer 2011. The holiday to the South of the country ends in disaster for Fares Meriem and their 10-year-old son Aziz when he is accidentally shot in an ambush. His injury will change their lives: Aziz needs a…

The String
Malik has a lot on his plate when he returns home to Tunisia after living in France. He's processing his father's death he can't come out to his mother and his childhood anxieties have resurfaced. But all of Malik's…

Beyond Glory
Thinking he may have caused the death of his commanding officer Captain Daniels in Tunisia Rocky visits Daniels' widow. She falls for him he falls for her she encourages him to go to West Point. While there he faces…
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