Raja Amari’s first feature length film “Satin Rouge” is a meditation on the transformative powers of self-expression. A widowed Tunisian housewife, tired of living in the shadow of her daughter and ...

TURIN — Tunisian helmer Raja Amari’s French-Tunisian co-production “Satin Rouge” won the main award in the 20th Turin Film Festival on Saturday. Amari’s story of an Arab housewife who discovers a new ...

Quite possibly the first Tunisian feminist belly-dancing film, “Satin Rouge” isn’t your average empowerment trip. Written and directed by 31-year-old Raja Amari, the coming-of-middle-age story centers ...

The 10th Annual Multicultural Film Festival ended Wednesday with a screening of Raja Amari’s first feature length film, “Satin Rouge.” The film, set in Tunisia, is an exploration of the art of belly ...

“Satin Rouge,” the debut feature of Tunisian-born filmmaker Raja Amari, has already received — and will continue to receive — attention because it’s a movie set in an Arab country that deals directly ...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- "Satin Rouge," is a delightfully refreshing Arabic film given to us by Raja Amari, a young Tunisian director, and relative newcomer to the world of cinema. At a time when ...

Raja Amari's French-Tunisian title, Satin Rouge, scooped the top prize at the Turin Film Festival (Nov 7-15), Italy's pre-eminent event for international cutting-edge films. Amari's drama focuses on a ...

Tunis — Following a spate of participations respectively at the 2009 Venice Film Festival, the 2009 Middle East International Film Festival in Abu Dhabi, the "Tout Ecrans" film festival in Switzerland ...

While looking for her teenage daughter in a cabaret, a widowed seamstress (Hiam Abbas) befriends a belly dancer and winds up becoming a popular dancer herself in this sensual Tunisian feature about ...

In this very impressive film from Tunisia, Lilia is a still-attractive woman with a teenage daughter, Salma. Lilia lives a rather sad existence, obsessively cleaning her house, watching television, ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Like so many mums, Lilia is worried that her teenage daughter, Salma, is becoming involved in a shadowy world of strangers and sex. So ...