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Aliases: فريد بوغدير

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Tunis

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Movie Involvements: 20

TV Involvements: 0


Most Famous Work

Biography

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.

Most Famous Work

Halfaouine: Boy of the Terraces
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6
Eden and After
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6

Eden and After

(1970) First Assistant Director
A Summer in La Goulette
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6

A Summer in La Goulette

(1996) Writer
Sweet Smell of Spring
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5

Sweet Smell of Spring

(2016) Writer
Villa Jasmin
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4

Villa Jasmin

(2008) Director
Arab Camera
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6

Arab Camera

(1987) Writer
La mort trouble
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4

La mort trouble

(1970) Writer
Twenty Years of African Cinema
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6

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