News about audiovisual in Tunisia
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On June 10th the former Tunisian President’s lawyer announced that charges of “violation of honour and identity theft” had been filed on behalf of his client against Attessia TV, a general interest private television channel. Apparently the ousted Tunisian president, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who has been living in exile in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, …
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The Carthage Film Festival (JCC), this year celebrating its fiftieth anniversary, is hosting the 3rd Atelier Takmil (Takmil Workshop) on November 1st, 2nd and 3rd. Since 2014 this workshop has allowed African and Arab film-makers to submit their film projects in post-production to the expertise of an international jury. The most promising rough cuts receive …
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The 10th documentary festival Doc in Tunis, organized by an association called Ness El Fen, was held from April 20th to 24th. Traditionally based in Tunis, the festival also organised screenings of selected films in 3 other Tunisian towns from April 22nd to 24th: Bizerte, Kairouan and Sidi Bouzid. The theme of this year’s festival …
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At the end of March, Tunisia’s principle public channel, Al Wataniya 1, and the 24-hour news channel France 24, launched a joint magazine programme, “Paris-Tunis, Tunis-Paris”. Co-produced by the two channels, the programme is recorded alternately between Paris and Tunis, and broadcast on the last Friday of the month, simultaneously on both channels from 7:10 …
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The 5th Douz Doc Days at the Sahara Museum in Douz was originally scheduled for October last year, before being cancelled for lack of budget. But now it will definitely take place: it has been relocated to Djerba “for financial reasons”, according to its director Hichem Ben Ammar, and will be held from March 20th …
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While there are no more than a dozen cinemas in the whole of Tunisia – concentrated mainly in Tunis – Adnène Helali has launched an original initiative in the town of Ghardaia (in the north-east), a “ciné-ferme” or farm-cinema. A teacher and organizer of Printemps de Sbeïtla, a festival combining music, dance and theatre, Helali …
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On March 8th the director of “Satin Rouge” and “Secrets”, Raja Amari, finished shooting her third feature film, “Corps Etranger” (Foreign Body) shot in Lyon and Tunisia. Co-produced by the French Mon Voisin Productions (Dominique Besnehard) and the Tunisian Nomadis Images (Dora Bouchoucha), the film is about a young woman arriving in France illegally after …
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