- Known For
- Directing
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- Place of Birth
- Tunis
Férid Boughedir
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.
Filmography
movieOf Skin and Men
2018 · Mustapha
movieFérid Boughedir: de l'Émotion Tunisienne au Rêve Universel
2016
movieSweet Smell of Spring
2016 · Director, Producer, Writer
movieTahar Chériaa: A l'Ombre du Baobab
2014 · Self
movieVilla Jasmin
2008 · Director
movieA Summer in La Goulette
1996 · Director, Writer
movieSous les marches du palais
1991 · Self
movieHalfaouine: Boy of the Terraces
1990 · Director, Writer
movieArab Camera
1987 · Narrator, Writer, Producer, Director
movieTwenty Years of African Cinema
1983 · Director, Writer
movieIn the Land of Tararani
1972 · Director
movieEden and After
1970 · First Assistant Director
movieUnquiet Death
1970 · Director, Writer