Kaouther Ben Hania (Arabic: كوثر بن هنية; born 27 August 1977, Sidi Bouzid) is a Tunisian film director. Her best-known film, Beauty and the Dogs (2017), was selected as the Tunisian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy Awards. Her 2020 film The Man Who Sold His Skin was nominated for the Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards.

Kaouther Ben Hania was born in Sidi Bouzid. She studied at the School of Arts and Cinema (EDAC) in Tunisia, then studied at La Fémis and the Sorbonne in Paris.