Biographies: Moufida Tlatli - Editor

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A Tunisian writer, director, and film editor. She was born in Sidi Bou Said, northern Tunisia, in 1947. She studied cinema in Paris, and then worked on French television as a text editor and production manager. In 1972, she returned to Tunisia and gained great fame in the field thanks to her editorial work, through which she collaborated with a number of directors, including Najia Ben Mabrouk and Salma Bakkar, and then began writing and directing. She attracted attention after directing her first film The Silence of Palaces, starring Hend Sabry, and won the Golden Camera Award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1994.

• 16 August 2021
• Toqa Hesham