Independent film production
A production company working from rural memory, social fracture, and experimental form.
Mahdia, Tunisia / Experimental documentary / Socially engaged cinema
Our Projects
Two creative documentaries trace rural paradise and private grief: one in post-production, one in development, both held through private access for programmers, collaborators, and production partners.
A contemplative portrait of a nomadic family living among Tunisia's agricultural fields, inside the place they call their paradise.
Through images of earth, rootedness, identity, strength, affection, pain, perception, and wisdom, the film approaches daily life as a philosophy of cosmic scale.
Twelve years after Ryadh lost his brother Waleed during an illegal attempt to reach the Italian coast, his grief takes shape inside his work in a public hospital mortuary.
The film follows migration, mourning, and care through a place that receives the bodies of illegal migrants every day, asking how work can become a difficult process of healing.
Screening Access
Selected films and works in progress are hosted through a private Vimeo archive for programmers, collaborators, press, and production partners.
Requests are reviewed manually. If access is approved, the studio will reply by email from production@arissatales.com.
Who We Are
Arissa Tales is a film production company based in Mahdia, Tunisia, focused on experimental and socially engaged creative films.
Its work moves through rural life, migration, grief, and care, building films through observation, restraint, and the precise rhythm of montage.
Founder
Marwen El Hechkel is a Tunisian filmmaker, producer, and editor whose practice comes from the editing room: a cinema built through rhythm, observation, and the tension between care and rupture.
He began making experimental short films as a teenager and has worked as a senior editor since graduating from ISAMM in 2013.
Read BiographyRecognition
This Is My Heaven received the Doc House Prize, the Al Jazeera Documentary Days Prize, and the IFT Prize at JCC Takmil.
Editing Practice
His editing work spans documentary features, docudrama, fiction shorts, documentary series, music videos, and commercials.
Education
He has trained and taught with TACIR, DW, Alkhatt, MediaHub, and three universities, including workshops in marginalized regions.