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Kaouther Ben Hania
Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia
Kaouther Ben Hania (Arabic: كوثر بن هنية; born August 27, 1977; Sidi Bouzid) is a Tunisian filmmaker. Beauty and the Dogs (2017), her best-known film, was selected as the Tunisian…
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Kaouther Ben Hania (Arabic: كوثر بن هنية; born August 27, 1977; Sidi Bouzid) is a Tunisian filmmaker. Beauty and the Dogs (2017), her best-known film, was selected as the Tunisian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy Awards. Her 2020 film The Man Who Sold His Skin was nominated for the Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards. Kaouther Ben Hania was born in Sidi Bouzid. She studied at the Ecole des Arts et du Cinéma (EDAC) in Tunisia, then studied at La Fémis and the Sorbonne in Paris.
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2025
The Voice of Hind Rajab
Movie Director
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2023
Four Daughters
Movie Director
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2022
Love, Life & Everything in Between
TV show Director
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2021
I And the Stupid Boy
Movie Writer
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2021
The Man Who Sold His Skin
Movie Director
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2021
C ce soir
TV show Self - Guest
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2018
Sheikh's Watermelons
Movie Screenplay
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2017
Beauty and the Dogs
Movie Director
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2016
Zaineb Hates the Snow
Movie Director
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2014
The Blade of Tunis
Movie Writer
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2013
Wooden Hand
Movie Director
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2010
Imams go to School
Movie Writer
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2006
Me, My Sister and the Thing
Movie Writer
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2005
Breach
Movie Writer
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2001
Democracy Now!
TV show Self
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1976
Cérémonie des César
TV show Self - Presenter
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1953
The Oscars
TV show Self
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Mimesis
Movie Director
