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TUNISIA / Télévision Tunisienne broadcasts the national team’s World Cup matches

On June 14th Télévision Tunisienne announced it would broadcast the Tunisian team’s 3 matches at the 2018 football World Cup. It also broadcast the official opening ceremony. This was made possible by an agreement between Télévision Tunisienne and beinsports which holds the exclusive broadcasting rights for matches in the country. The matches against England on …

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TUNISIA / International success for Moufida Fedhila’s film “Aya”

Aya

Moufida Fedhila’s “Aya” is having a brilliant career in festivals. So far this year the film has won the Tanit d’Or at Carthage, the audience prize at the Noisy-le-sec festival of Franco-Arab film, the jury prize at the “Cinéma du monde” festival in Paris and the Gold FIFOG in Geneva. It has now been selected …

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TUNISIA / A day dedicated to Tunisia during FIFOG

The 13th Festival International du Film Oriental de Genève (FIFOG) ran from April 21st to 29th. During the event the organisers devoted a day to the Tunisian embassy’s cultural activity in Switzerland. This was marked by the screening-discussion of two Tunisian films in the FIFOG competition: Elyes Baccar’s “Tunis By Night”, in the presence of …

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TUNISIA / Series of screenings to celebrate the work of Mohamed Malas

Mohammed Malas

Between April 17th to 22nd the Centre national du cinéma et de l’image and the Cinémathèque tunisienne organised a series of screenings called “Preservation of the work of Mohamed Malas”. Born in 1945, this well-known Syrian director graduated from the Ecole normale at Damascus. He began his film career in the 1970s in Russia. In …

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TUNISIA / 3rd Gabès Film Festival

gabes festival

The 3rd Gabès Film Festival was held from April 20th to 26th. Its goal: to revive the city’s film culture. It took place in the Agora Gabès, a new cultural space inaugurated for the event. Festival chairman Mahmoud Jemni emphasised that the festival’s scope has broadened since the “Gabès Arab Festival” became the “Gabès Film …

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TUNISIA / the programme “Hikayat Al-Cinema” focusses on Tunisian films for a month

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The London-based Al Araby TV has decided that throughout April its weekly programme “Hikayat Al-Cinema” (Stories of Cinema) will honour Tunisia. The programme, intended for the general public, is produced by the British production company “Nostalgia Media”, itself run by the Egyptian producer Hany Beshr. The programme’s creators want to encourage the Arab public’s interest …

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TUNISIA / The government puts forward candidates for Tunisian television’s top job

The Haute Autorité Indépendante de la Communication Audiovisuelle (HAICA) has announced the government shortlist of candidates for the position of Tunisian television’s CEO. There are three of them: Najoua Rahoui, Mahmoud Bouned and Abdelmajid Mraïhi. The latter has been acting chairman since June 2017. While awaiting the government’s final selection, made with HAICA’s input, the …

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