Moufida Tlatli

Moufida Tlatli (Tunisian Arabic: مفيدة التلاتلي‎; 4 August 1947 – 7 February 2021[1]) was a Tunisian film director. She was the first Arab woman to direct a full feature-length film (The Silences of the Palace) in the Arab World.

Moufida Tlatli
Born(1947-08-04)4 August 1947
Sidi Bou Saïd, French Tunisia
Died7 February 2021(2021-02-07) (aged 73)
OccupationFilm director, film editor, politician
Years active1970– 2021

Biography

She was born in Sidi Bou Saïd suburb of the capital Tunis in 1947. She said that she discovered her love of cinema with the help of her philosophy teacher.

After graduating from the French Institut des hautes études cinématographiques in 1968, she returned to Tunisia where she worked as a film editor for different Tunisian films.

She directed her first featured-film The Silences of the Palace in 1994. The film was acclaimed critically and won several awards: Cannes Film Festival's Golden Camera, the Carthage Film Festival's Golden Tanit, British Film Institute's Sutherland Trophy, Toronto Film Festival's International Critics' Award and Istanbul International Film Festival's Golden Tulip.

Her second film, The Season of Men, was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival.[2]

Following the downfall of president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in 2011 she was appointed Minister of Culture in the provisional government.[3]

Filmography

Editor
  • 1972: In The Land of Trannani
  • 1974: Sajnène
  • 1974: A People's Victory
  • 1975: Fatma 75
  • 1977: Omar Katlato
  • 1978: A Ball and Dreams
  • 1979: Nahla
  • 1980: Aziza
  • 1982: Shadows of The Earth
  • 1983: Crossings
  • 1984: Wonderers of The Desert
  • 1986: Arab
  • 1987: Arab Camera
  • 1988: The Trace
  • 1989: Leila's My Reason
  • 1990: The Song of The Rock
  • 1990: Halfaouine: Boy of the Terraces
  • 1992: The Wave's Hipsters
  • 1994: The Fire Dance
  • 1994: The Silences of the Palace
  • 2000: The Season of Men
  • 2004: Nadia and Sarra

Director

Writer
  • 1994: The Silence of The Palaces
  • 2000: The Men's Season
  • 2004: Nadia and Sarra

References
  1. "Renowned Tunisian filmmaker Moufida El-Talatli passes away at age 73 - Film - Arts & Culture". Ahram Online.
  2. "La Saison des Hommes" [The Season of Men]. Festival de Cannes (in French). Retrieved 15 October 2009.
  3. Ayad, Christophe (18 January 2011). "Tunisie, une transition à hauts risques" [Tunisia, a high-risk transition]. www.liberation.fr (in French). Archived from the original on 8 July 2013.
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