About the movie: Halfaouine - Boy of the Terraces

A coming-of-age comedy/drama set in Tunisia. Twelve-year-old Noura is an impressionable boy who must learn to reconcile two conflicting worlds - the loving world of Moslem women and the vastly different, harsher world of men - while also dealing with his own budding sexuality.

source: About the movie 'Halfaouine: Boy of the Terraces'; Review by Dawn M. Barclift; www.imdb.com/title/tt0090665/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl; IMDb; Movie from 1980