About the Author
After studying film at the Sorbonne and New York University (Tisch School of the Arts), Hella Tounessi has directed numerous institutional films in the luxury and ready-to-wear industries as well as several documentaries for the United Nations. She has just directed the short film Inconnue currently in post-production.
Developed Projects
After a 25-year career in France, Baya, a former cabaret dancer, returns to Algiers, her hometown. Upset by the lack of freedom of the young girls in her neighborhood, she tries to share with them her passion for dance and to revive the emblematic cabaret “Le Palm Beach” thanks to them. But very quickly, Baya is confronted with the hardening of a society, which her son, Amine, is the first to embody and remind her of.
From Script to Screen
