[2][3] Ridha Behi studied sociology and obtained a master's degree in 1973 at the Paris Nanterre University and a PhD at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in 1977[4] with a thesis titled Cinema and Society in Tunisia in the 1960s under the management of Marc Ferro.

fr:Soleil des hyènes) (1977) and Les Anges (1984), were featured at the Directors' Fortnight at Cannes in 1977 and 1985 respectively.

[9] A teacher at the Higher School of Audiovisual and Cinema of Gammarth,[10] he leads various writing workshops around the world, including Méditalents, which he chaired in Morocco in 2012.

It was selected as the Tunisian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards, but was changed to As I Open My Eyes by Leyla Bouzid.

He also directed a dozen of documentaries in Arab states of the Persian Gulf between 1979 and 1983, and a series for the channel Al Jazeera titled Portraits of filmmakers, between 2006 and 2008.