Kaouther Ben Hania x 3

Ben Hania received her first real international recognition with 2017’s Beauty and the Dogs, a harrowing depiction of a Tunisian rape survivor’s ordeal that premiered in the Un Certain Regard section of Cannes, and she has since established herself as equally adept in the fields of fiction, nonfiction, and the liminal spaces between, with subsequent works including The Man Who Sold His Skin (an investigation of “the art world and the political stakes of our times,” per the filmmaker, nominated for Best International Feature at the 93rd Academy Awards) and Four Daughters, a singular meta-documentary study in grief and radicalization that was nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 96th Academy Awards. One of the leading lights of contemporary cinema in the Arab world, Ben Hamia has singled out one theme that unifies her diverse filmography: “Injustice.”