Erige Sehiri is a French-Tunisian director and producer. With her own production company, Henia Production, she develops Tunisian author-driven documentaries that have appeared at festivals including Visions du réel, the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam and Cinemed, among others. In 2018, her breakout feature-length documentary, Railway Men, remained in Tunisian cinemas for six weeks. In 2021, she wrote, directed and produced her first fiction feature, Under the Fig Trees, which won several post-production awards from the Venice Film Festival’s Final Cut, then had its premiere in the Directors’ Fortnight at the Festival de Cannes in 2022.