Meryam Joobeur

Born in the Maelstrom

Meryam Joobeur

Sasha Lane, Karen Glave

Rebecca is an eighteen-year-old biracial girl bound in an imaginary world shaped by her black mother’s painful past. She searches for liberation from a world where she does not belong.

إخوان

Meryam Joobeur

Mohamed Graïaa, Salha Nasraoui

Mohamed is a hardened shepherd living in rural Tunisia with his wife and two sons. Mohamed is deeply shaken when his oldest son Malik returns home after a long journey with a mysterious new wife. Tension between father and son rises over three days until reaching a breaking point.

Gods, Weeds and Revolutions

Meryam Joobeur

A young woman returns to Tunisia and must come to terms with her grandfather's illness and the country's dark past under dictatorship.

Motherhood

Meryam Joobeur

Mariem Jlassi Akkari, Neji Kanaweti

Salha, the matriarch of a farming family in the remote north of Tunisia, is overjoyed when her son Malek returns home from Syria with a mysterious young wife in tow. She is willing to do anything to protect them and believes everything that Malek tells her of his experience in Syria. However, when men from the community start vanishing, Salha’s fragile world begins to shatter. ‘Motherhood’ is an exploration of the limits of maternal love and how guilt can haunt the human spirit.