Leyla Bouzid (born 1984 in Tunis), is a Tunisian screenwriter and film director.

In 2012, Twitching screened in a competition at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, where it was well received.

It also won the Grand Jury Prize of student films at the Festival Premiers Plans d'Angers.

[3][4][5] As I Open My Eyes investigates the modern Tunisian identity through focusing on a young woman's personal relationships during the political instability in the months before the Tunisian Revolution.

The film marries the private life of a young Tunisian woman with the story of her nation at the cusp of fundamental change; "the young female body of Farah, with her voice and gaze, plays a pivotal role in how the movie is intensely meandering between the political and the nonpolitical.