TUNISIA IS PERHAPS best known as the lone Arab-spring success story, a democracy in a region full of autocrats. But it is also one of the world's biggest exporters of jihadists. Some 6,000 Tunisians are thought to have joined Islamic State at its height. Hundreds of these men are now coming home. "I wanted to look at the emotional consequences of that," says Meryam Joobeur, the director of a short film called "Brotherhood". She is not alone. This year's Carthage Film Festival, which runs from November 3rd to November 10th in Tunis, features several Tunisian films that tackle radical-isation. In "Brotherhood", a young Tunisian man returns from Syria to his parents' farm with a fully veiled Syrian wife. His mother is happy to see him, but his father is suspicious. After a few days he reports his son to the police (though he later regrets his decision).
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