His first two feature films, "The Hyena's Sun" () (1977) and "Les Anges" (1984), were featured at the Directors' Fortnight at Cannes in 1977 and 1985 respectively. He directed the film "Les hirondelles ne meurent pas à Jerusalem" in 1994 which received the critic's award at Carthage Film Festival. His film The Magic Box was selected to be screened at Venice Film Festival, received a Special Jury Prize at Carthage Film Festival and also a special mention of the jury at the 22nd Amiens International Film Festival. It was selected as the Tunisian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 75th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.