Kaouther Ben Hania
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- August 27, 1977, Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia
- Movies
- 12
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.
Best-Known Movies
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 2025 | The Voice of Hind Rajab | Director, Writer |
| 2023 | Four Daughters | Director, Writer |
| 2021 | I And the Stupid Boy | Writer, Director |
| 2021 | The Man Who Sold His Skin | Director, Writer |
| 2018 | Sheikh's Watermelons | Screenplay, Director |
| 2017 | Beauty and the Dogs | Director |
| 2016 | Zaineb Hates the Snow | Director, Writer |
| 2014 | The Blade of Tunis | Writer, Director |
| 2013 | Wooden Hand | Director, Screenplay |
| 2010 | Imams go to School | Writer, Director |
| 2006 | Me, My Sister and the Thing | Writer, Director |
| 2005 | Breach | Writer, Director |
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