Film
Director
Erige Sehiri
Erige Sehiri is a Tunisian French director and producer. A former journalist, she started her career as a documentary filmmaker.
Her breakout feature documentary, Railway Men, which presented the daily struggle of railway workers against the failures of the national railways, remained for six weeks in Tunisian theaters.
In 2022, she wrote, directed, and produced her first fiction feature, Under the Fig Trees, which won several awards at the Venice International Film Festival's Final Cut and joined the selection of the 54th Director's Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival. It was also selected to be Tunisia's official submission in the 2023 Oscars for Best International Feature Film.
Her breakout feature documentary, Railway Men, which presented the daily struggle of railway workers against the failures of the national railways, remained for six weeks in Tunisian theaters.
In 2022, she wrote, directed, and produced her first fiction feature, Under the Fig Trees, which won several awards at the Venice International Film Festival's Final Cut and joined the selection of the 54th Director's Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival. It was also selected to be Tunisia's official submission in the 2023 Oscars for Best International Feature Film.
