Kaouther Ben Hania

Kaouther Ben Hania (she/her) studied filmmaking in Tunis and in Paris (La Fémis and the Sorbonne).  She directed several short films, including Sheik’s Watermelons (2018) and Wooden Hand (2013), which were selected for several international film festivals, and received numerous awards.  The Challat of Tunis, her first feature-length film, opened the ACID section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. Then, she made Zaineb Hates the Snow, a full-length documentary filmed over 6 years between Tunisia and Canada. Kaouther Ben Hania, who is continually experimenting with her documentary and fiction work and was competing for the first time in the Official Selection at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival with Four Daughters, a fictional documentary.