Creations

“La Malédiction (1)”, or Ain Houta, is an energetic, furious punk-rock performance presented by Wissal Labidi on September 26th as part of the Nawaat Festival. A 45-minute barrage of incisive and often crude language revisiting the mechanisms of male domination. A show that is both exhilarating and disturbing.

The 26-year-old Swiss writer of Tunisian origin Raja Sabta el-Amri has launched a children’s book series titled Mom, Dad, Can We Talk About, which addresses social and educational issues. The first book in the series, published in spring 2025, is titled What Is Consent? and is available in three languages (Tunisian colloquial Arabic, French, and English), and also in Braille. There are also a sign language version and an audio version. It targets children as young as four. An interview.

Following the mysterious disappearance of sardines in the bay of Oran, the El’Sardines miniseries questions much more than just ecological imbalance. With finesse and poetry, it reveals the silent struggle of a woman in search of freedom, of space for expression, and new horizons. Directed by Zoulikha Tahar and co-written with Kaouther Adimi, this short fiction series of rare density transforms a scientific investigation into a political parable.

Do the dead come back to reclaim the rights they were deprived of in life? This is what Atlantics, a 2019 supernatural romantic drama film directed by Mati Diop, examines though the trajectory of Senegalese construction workers who attempt a perilous sea journey to Europe.

Through its dreamy landscape of a busy metropolis, this documentary-style drama pinpoints and shades the ‘light’ of three working women. Struggling to make ends meet, these characters try to find the light among each other no matter how hard it is to imagine.

Podcasts are in boom and have become essential platforms for expression and powerful tools for activism. From the southern shores of the Mediterranean, three feminist podcasts stand out: Masâha, Femmes en Sursis : de l’emprise au féminicide, and Boo 3al Taboo. Each of these projects amplifies women’s voices, shedding light on their struggles and providing a critical space for reflection. Deconstructing patriarchal structures, they explore intimate experiences and offer insight on how to reshape our world.

In Bologna, the communication agency Comunicattive is shaking up the norms of visual representation. With its project Fotonica, it has created an image bank to showcase the diversity of bodies and identities. The goal? To free media, institutions, and communication campaigns from sexist, racist, ableist, and homophobic, lesbophobic, and transphobic stereotypes, and to build inclusive and authentic narratives.

Emna Mrabet is a lecturer in the cinema department of Paris 8 University, where her teaching focuses on the aesthetics of cinema, documentary production, and film analysis. The emphasis of her research is on the question of identity among filmmakers with a background of immigration from North Africa, particularly in the films of Tunisian female directors. Together with Ons Kammoun, professor and researcher in cinema in Tunis, she is currently organizing a conference in Tunis on June 13-14 on “Gender and emancipation in Arab cinema.”

Despite its popular and… anti-fascist origins, the high mass of international cinema which is the Cannes Film Festival has become utterly inaccessible. This is what around ten young women from the region confided to our journalist. On the other side of the barricades, these women from the Côte d'Azur struggle to find their place in their own city, faced with the people “from above”: the “others,” the movie stars, models, actresses, influencers. A Medfeminiswiya report.

Women and women’s resilience were at the forefront of the fourth edition of the Annaba Mediterranean Film Festival, which made a sensational comeback after several years of absence. A Medfeminiswiya report.