• Under the Fig Trees
  • Under the Fig Trees
  • Under the Fig Trees

Among the trees, young women and men working in the summer harvest in Tunisia develop new feelings, flirt, try to understand each other, find deeper connections – and also run away from them. Screened at the Directors' Fortnight at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival.

Erige Sehiri

Erige Sehiri

Franco-Tunisian director, journalist, and producer born in 1982. In her production company, Henia, she develops Tunisian authorial and documentary projects. She has directed the documentaries Le Facebook de Mon Père (2013), Railway Men (2018), and Étudiants (2018). Under the Fig Trees is her first fiction feature.

  • Under the Fig Trees
  • Under the Fig Trees
  • Under the Fig Trees