Moroccan director Zakaria Nouri won Best Director Award at the Tunis International Panorama Festival for his film Aicha, chosen from the 20 short fiction films and 4 short documentaries in the competition. Organised by film-maker Kamal Aouij, the event was held at the Tunisian Cinematheque from February 8th to 10th. Aicha describes the bleak life …
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Salwa, a short film by Tunisian director Ines Ben Othman, was banned from being screened at the 8th Alexandria Short Film Festival, although it was still allowed to participate in the competition. The festival organisers told Ms Ben Othman of their decision two days before the festival opened, which was held from February 10th to …
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Tunisian director Neijb Belkadhi’s “Communion” has been selected for the official competition of the first Red Sea International Film Festival. The event will take place in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia from December 6th to 15th. “Communion” takes us back to March 2020 as the pandemic is beginning to spread: “A couple, a cat, a virus. During …
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Abdelhamid Bouchnak’s “Papillon d’Or” (Golden Butterfly) has been chosen to represent Tunisia at the 2022 Oscars, competing for the Best International Feature Film Award. The film was selected on October 12th at a committee-meeting chaired by Slim Dargachi, director general of the CNCI (Centre National du Cinéma et de l’Image). “A sort of psychic reading or even …
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Tunisian director Erige Sehiri’s “Under the Fig Trees” won no fewer than eight awards at the 78th Venice Film Festival’s Final Cut Workshop. Two of them were sponsored by partners of the Arab Cinema Centre, Mad Solutions and the ElGouna Film Festival, and these will help market, advertise and distribute the film. Since 2013 Final …
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Madame Prod has launched a project call for women directors needing finance for their first feature. Madame Prod and “Le cinéma au féminin” Created in 2019 by Franco-Tunisian film-maker Ismahane Lahmar, Madame Prod defines itself as “an audiovisual production entity with social and unifying values.” Supported by the Drosos Foundation, the Goethe-Institut and the Institut Français de Tunisie, Madame …
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The 35th Festival International du Film Amateur de Kélibia (FIFAK), which was first going to take place last year, then this year from August 7th to 14th, has had to be postponed yet again. Organized by the Centre National du Cinéma et de l’Image (CNCI) and the Fédération Tunisienne des Cinéastes Amateurs (FTCA), Tunisia’s oldest film festival – created in 1964 – …
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