Person

Férid Boughedir

Directing · Tunis

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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  Arab Camera

  Narrator

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  In the Land of Tararani

  Director

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  Halfaouine: Boy of the Terraces

  Director

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  A Summer in La Goulette

  Director

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  Sweet Smell of Spring

  Director

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  Eden and After

  First Assistant Director

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  Sous les marches du palais

  Self

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  Of Skin and Men

  Mustapha

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  Twenty Years of African Cinema

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  Unquiet Death

  Director

• 2018Of Skin and MenMustapha
• 2016Férid Boughedir: de l'Émotion Tunisienne au Rêve Universel
• 2016Sweet Smell of SpringDirector
• 2014Tahar Chériaa: A l'Ombre du BaobabSelf
• 2008Villa JasminDirector
• 1996A Summer in La GouletteDirector
• 1991Sous les marches du palaisSelf
• 1990Halfaouine: Boy of the TerracesDirector
• 1987Arab CameraNarrator
• 1983Twenty Years of African CinemaDirector
• 1972In the Land of TararaniDirector
• 1970Eden and AfterFirst Assistant Director
• 1970Unquiet DeathDirector