Filmmaker. Writer.
Founder of the Integral Acting Method.
I have spent thirty years watching human beings appear in front of a camera. The Integral Acting Method is what I built from that observation.
I was born in Tunis in 1971 and studied directing at the Conservatoire Libre du Cinéma Français and La Fémis in Paris, then completed the Cultural Manager Program at the Goethe-Institut in Berlin. My first years on a film set were spent as assistant director on international productions shooting in Tunisia — including Star Wars.
Between 2006 and 2017 I directed several feature films and documentaries including: She & He, Rouge Parole, Lost in Tunisia, and Tunis by Night. Rouge Parole, on the Tunisian revolution, was supported by the Doha Film Institute and remains the work I am most often asked about.
Today I live in Atlanta, and part of my work has shifted from filming people to teaching them. The Integral Acting Method came from that shift — from realising that what I had been observing for thirty years could be taught. Not as inspiration. As method.
Everything I do is one practice in three forms — observing human truth, writing it into stories, and teaching others how to inhabit it.
Feature films and documentaries. Thirty years of directing across continents — from Tunisian streets to international festivals.
Director · Writer · Producer.
See filmography →The Integral Acting Method — a structured system for actors and for any human being willing to engage seriously with the work. Built from three decades of observation behind the camera.
Founder.
Discover the Acting Method →Essays, scripts, conferences. Guest speaker at Columbia University, the Goethe-Institut, and the German Commission for UNESCO.
Writer.
Read & listen →Feature works between fiction and documentary, premiered across international festivals. Each one is a film — and a lesson in how human beings appear in front of a lens.
On the eve of the Tunisian Revolution, Youssef, a radio host brutally silenced by the authorities, watches his family and his certainties fall apart. Lost in a Tunis he no longer recognizes, he disappears into the night as the country enters a historic uprising.
A road trip from northern Tunisia to the desert reveals the struggles of women and the tensions shaping a country in the aftermath of the revolution.
In the aftermath of the Tunisian Revolution, Rouge Parole captures a society rediscovering freedom of speech after decades of silence and repression. Through voices in the streets, the film portrays the hopes, debates, and uncertainties of a nation learning how to build democracy.
Shut away in his apartment, a young man refuses to face the outside world and withdraws from the Tunisian society around him — until a young woman enters his life and turns his world upside down.
Earlier work includes shorts, plays, and assistant directing on international productions shot in Tunisia — among them Star Wars.
The architecture I built from thirty years of observation — a structured system for actors and for any human being willing to engage seriously with the work.
IAM integrates acting, embodiment, and human transformation into a single, progressive pathway. It can be entered without prior acting experience, and goes as far as mastery and transmission for those who choose to carry it.
Train the actor. Transform the human.
Discover the full Acting Method →Beyond film and method — essays, conferences, interventions in places where human truth meets the question of how to teach it.
For collaborations on film, for inquiries about the Integral Acting Method, or for speaking invitations — write to me. I read every message.
