---
name: "Kaouther Ben Hania"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/kaouther-ben-hania"
fi1m_id: "kaouther-ben-hania"
imdb_id: "nm4141599"
tmdb_id: 1381379
wikidata_id: "Q30005402"
roles: ["Editor","Director"]
born: "27 August 1977"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-09-17T19:19:03.731549+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Kaouther Ben Hania

## Identity

Kaouther Ben Hania

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/kaouther-ben-hania
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** kaouther-ben-hania
- **IMDb ID:** nm4141599
- **TMDB ID:** 1381379
- **Wikidata ID:** Q30005402
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaouther_Ben_Hania, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30005402, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4141599/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1381379

Editor and director. Born 27 August 1977 in Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor, Director
- **Born:** 27 August 1977, Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia
- **Also known as:** كوثر بن هنية, Каутер Бен Ханья
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaouther_Ben_Hania, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30005402, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4141599/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1381379

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*The Voice of Hind Rajab*](https://film.one/film/the-voice-of-hind-rajab.md) (81)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Kaouther Ben Hania is a Tunisian film director and screenwriter. She was born on 27 August 1977 in Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia. She studied at the Ecole des Arts et du Cinéma in Tunisia, then at La Fémis and the Sorbonne in Paris.

Her feature films include *Beauty and the Dogs* (2017), *The Man Who Sold His Skin* (2020), *Four Daughters* (2023) and *The Voice of Hind Rajab* (2025). She also wrote the last three of these. *The Man Who Sold His Skin* and *The Voice of Hind Rajab* were nominated for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film; *Four Daughters* was nominated for Best Documentary Feature.

Ben Hania began her career with short films and documentaries in the 2000s and 2010s.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, latimes.com, variety.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Voice of Hind Rajab* (2025), Fi1m 81, Editor, Director, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-voice-of-hind-rajab.md)

## Complete filmography (14)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Voice of Hind Rajab* (2025), Director, Editor, Writer — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/the-voice-of-hind-rajab.md)
- *Four Daughters* (2023), Director, Editor, Writer
- *Love, Life & Everything in Between* (2022), series, Director
- *I And the Stupid Boy* (2021), Director, Writer, Editor
- *The Man Who Sold His Skin* (2021), Director, Writer
- *Sheikh's Watermelons* (2018), Director, Screenplay
- *Beauty and the Dogs* (2017), Director, Scenario Writer
- *Zaineb Hates the Snow* (2016), Director, Writer, Director of Photography
- *The Blade of Tunis* (2014), Writer, Director
- *Wooden Hand* (2013), Screenplay, Director
- *Imams go to School* (2010), Writer, Director
- *Me, My Sister and the Thing* (2006), Director, Writer
- *Breach* (2005), Director, Writer
- *Mimesis*, Director, Writer

## Gallery

- ![Kaouther Ben Hania at the 53rd International Film Festival Rotterdam](https://film.one/media/person/7250/gallery-c9d06480fef0.jpg) Kaouther Ben Hania at the 53rd International Film Festival Rotterdam — Vera de Kok, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Kaouther_Ben_Hania_-_IFFR_2024.jpg/1280px-Kaouther_Ben_Hania_-_IFFR_2024.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![2025 Venice Film Festival winner of the Grand Jury Award For the Voice of Hind Rajab](https://film.one/media/person/7250/gallery-8c5761e4a823.jpg) 2025 Venice Film Festival winner of the Grand Jury Award For the Voice of Hind Rajab — Colleen Sturtevant, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Kaouther_Ben_Hania_2025_Venice_Film_Festival.jpg/1280px-Kaouther_Ben_Hania_2025_Venice_Film_Festival.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Kaouther Ben Hania, Director The Voice of Hind Rajab, Four Daughters, The Man Who Sold His Skin, at the SXSW London festival hosted in London, England during Ju (2026)](https://film.one/media/person/7250/gallery-3dc031521279.jpg) Kaouther Ben Hania, Director The Voice of Hind Rajab, Four Daughters, The Man Who Sold His Skin, at the SXSW London festival hosted in London, England during Ju (2026) — DavidPMaynard, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Kaouther_Ben_Hania_at_2026_SXSW_London_01.jpg/1280px-Kaouther_Ben_Hania_at_2026_SXSW_London_01.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Kaouther Ben Hania, Director The Voice of Hind Rajab, Four Daughters, The Man Who Sold His Skin, at the SXSW London festival hosted in London, England during Ju (2026)](https://film.one/media/person/7250/gallery-bb49591b6fcd.jpg) Kaouther Ben Hania, Director The Voice of Hind Rajab, Four Daughters, The Man Who Sold His Skin, at the SXSW London festival hosted in London, England during Ju (2026) — DavidPMaynard, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Kaouther_Ben_Hania_at_2026_SXSW_London_02.jpg/1280px-Kaouther_Ben_Hania_at_2026_SXSW_London_02.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Kaouther Ben Hania](https://film.one/media/person/7250/gallery-a1fdcd3f5c2b.jpg) Kaouther Ben Hania — Image via TMDB
- ![Kaouther Ben Hania](https://film.one/media/person/7250/gallery-76b10a640d7b.jpg) Kaouther Ben Hania — Image via TMDB
- ![Kaouther Ben Hania](https://film.one/media/person/7250/gallery-44acf7e0a9b8.jpg) Kaouther Ben Hania — Image via TMDB
- ![Kaouther Ben Hania](https://film.one/media/person/7250/gallery-d9abe2d7c406.jpg) Kaouther Ben Hania — DavidPMaynard, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Kaouther_Ben_Hania_at_2026_SXSW_London_03.jpg/1280px-Kaouther_Ben_Hania_at_2026_SXSW_London_03.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 2024: Best Documentary Feature Film (nominated), for *Four Daughters*

### Other awards — 1 won

- Lumière Award for Best International Co-Production 2021: Lumière Award for Best International Co-Production (won), for *The Man Who Sold His Skin*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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