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A Tunisian film director, writer, critic and historian born in 1944 in Hammam-Lif, Tunisia. His film, Halfaouine: Boy of the Terraces, is considered his most famous film and it won him the Golden Tanit Award at the 1990 Carthage Film Festival. He worked as a journalist in the magazine Jeune Afrique, in addition to his work as a professor at the University of Tunis. He has published several books on the history of African and Arab cinema. Many of his documentaries were shown at international festivals, the most important of which is the Cannes Film Festival, where the film Caméra d'Afrique was shown in 1983, as well as Caméra Arabe in 1987.
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2018
Of Skin and Men
Movie Mustapha
- 2016
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2016
Sweet Smell of Spring
Movie Director
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2014
Tahar Chériaa: A l'Ombre du Baobab
Movie Self
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2008
Villa Jasmin
Movie Director
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1996
A Summer in La Goulette
Movie Director
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1991
Sous les marches du palais
Movie Self
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1990
Halfaouine: Boy of the Terraces
Movie Director
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1987
Arab Camera
Movie Narrator
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1983
Twenty Years of African Cinema
Movie Director
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1972
In the Land of Tararani
Movie Director
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1970
Eden and After
Movie First Assistant Director
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1970
Unquiet Death
Movie Director