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Kaouther Ben Hania

Kaouther Ben Hania

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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Known For

  • I And the Stupid Boy
  • The Blade of Tunis
  • Four Daughters
  • Beauty and the Dogs
  • Zaineb Hates the Snow
  • Breach
  • Me, My Sister and the Thing
  • You Shall Not Make an Image
  • Sheikh's Watermelons
  • The Man Who Sold His Skin
  • Wooden Hand
  • Imams go to School