This first edition of E-FEST, dedicated to film screenings and collective readings, symbolically revives the original purpose of Ksar El Ferch: a place where residents once gathered to pass down oral history, share stories, and build community. The aim here is to bring back certain presences from the past—those that continue to haunt our lands and our imaginations—so that we may better examine them, understand them, and, perhaps, let them go.

E-FEST’s video and reading program has been designed in three phases, as an invitation to look at and rethink the territory around us.

The recent discovery in the region of the fossil of the largest crocodile in history reminds us that this landscape—too often described as a “desert”—is not an empty space. On the contrary, it is crisscrossed by numerous geological, historical, and memorial layers that bear witness to successive presences and a territory deeply inhabited.

A program curated by artist and filmmaker Fredj Moussa

This program will continue in Tunis at Drawiin, an independent space dedicated to rethinking and shaping our narratives in a context-specific way.

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This first edition of the festival is dedicated to performances and collective readings, symbolically reviving the core function of the Al-Farsh Palace: a place where local residents used to gather to pass down oral history, share stories, and build community. The goal here is to bring back some of the presences of the past—those that still haunt the land and the imagination—in order to examine and better understand them, and perhaps move beyond them

The festival’s video program and readings have been structured in three phases, as an invitation to look at and think about the surrounding area in a different way

The recent discovery in the region of the fossil of the largest crocodile in history reminds us that this landscape—often referred to as “the desert”—is not an empty space. On the contrary, it is traversed by numerous geological and historical layers and monuments, bearing witness to successive presences and a deeply inhabited region

And this program will continue in Tunis, in Draouine, which is an independent space dedicated to rethinking and reshaping our stories in a contextual