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The Season Of Men
''The Season of Men'' ( ar, موسم الرجال , translit. ''Maussim al-rijal'', french: La saison des hommes) is a 2000 French-Tunisian drama film directed by Moufida Tlatli. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival. The title of the film, The Season of Men, refers to the one month out of the year that the women's husbands come to the Island of Djerba. Cast * Rabia Ben Abdallah as Aicha (as Rabiaa Ben Abdallah) * Sabah Bouzouita as Zeineb * Ghalia Benali as Meriem (as Ghalla Ben Ali) * Hend Sabri as Emna * Ezzedine Gannoun as Said (as Ezzedine Guennoun) * Mouna Noureddine as Matriarch * Azza Baaziz as Meriem as a child * Lilia Falkat as Emna as a child * Adel Hergal as Aziz * Houyem Rassaa as Zohra * Kaouther Bel Haj Ali as Fatma * Néjib Belkadhi as Sami * Jamal Madani as Younes * Sadok Boutouria as Am Ali * Zakia Ben Ayed as Regaya * Wajiha Jendoubi as Salwa Plot An 18-year-old on the island Djerba, Aïcha, is m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moufida Tlatli
Moufida Tlatli ( aeb, مفيدة التلاتلي; 4 August 19477 February 2021) was a Tunisian film director, screenwriter, and editor. She is noted for her breakthrough film '' The Silences of the Palace'' in 1994, which won several international awards. She went on to direct two more films: '' The Season of Men'' (2000) and '' Nadia and Sarra'' (2004). Early life Moufida Tlatli was born in Sidi Bou Said, a suburb of the capital Tunis, on 4 August 1947. Her interest in cinema was piqued by her philosophy teacher. She moved to Paris in 1965, where she studied film editing and screenplay at the ''Institut des hautes études cinématographiques''. She subsequently went back to Tunisia in 1972 and started off as a film editor. One of the notable films she edited was ''Halfaouine Child of the Terraces'' (1990) by Férid Boughedir. Career Moufida Tlatli made her directorial debut with '' The Silences of the Palace'' (1994). She drew inspiration for the film from the challengi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lilia Falkat
Lilia (Latin plural, meaning "lilies" in English; singular, ''lilium'') are pit traps arranged in a quincunx pattern dug by the Roman armies in front of their defences. Frequently they had sharpened stakes set inside them as an extra obstacle to attackers. Lilia have been found in front of both Hadrian's Wall in England and the Antonine Wall The Antonine Wall, known to the Romans as ''Vallum Antonini'', was a turf fortification on stone foundations, built by the Romans across what is now the Central Belt of Scotland, between the Firth of Clyde and the Firth of Forth. Built some twe ... in Scotland. External links Images of lilies at the Antonine Wall Fortification (obstacles) {{Fort-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000s Arabic-language Films
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Origin Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a phoneme, so the derived Greek letter sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter ''samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the '' xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its association with the Greek word (earlier ) "to hiss". The original name of the letter "sigma" may have been ''san'', but due to the complica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000 Films
The year 2000 in film involved some significant events. The top grosser worldwide was '' Mission: Impossible 2''. Domestically in North America, '' Gladiator'' won the Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Actor ( Russell Crowe). ''Dinosaur'' was the most expensive film of 2000 and a box-office success. __TOC__ Overview 2000 saw the releases of the first installment of popular film series ''X-Men'', ''Final Destination'', ''Scary Movie'', and '' Meet the Parents''. Among the films based on TV shows are '' Mission: Impossible 2'', ''Traffic'', '' The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle'', '' Charlie's Angels'' and '' Rugrats in Paris: The Movie'' Among the movies based on books (and TV shows) is ''Thomas and the Magic Railroad''. The most acclaimed films of the year are '' Gladiator''; ''Traffic''; '' Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon''; '' American Psycho''; ''Almost Famous, Requiem for a Dream,'' and ''Erin Brockovich''. Highest-grossing films The top 10 films released in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tunis
''Tounsi'' french: Tunisois , population_note = , population_urban = , population_metro = 2658816 , population_density_km2 = , timezone1 = CET , utc_offset1 = +01:00 , timezone1_DST = , utc_offset1_DST = , postal_code_type = Postal code , postal_code = 1xxx, 2xxx , area_code_type = Calling code , area_code = 71 , iso_code = TN-11, TN-12, TN-13 and TN-14 , blank_name_sec2 = geoTLD , blank_info_sec2 = .tn , website = , footnotes = Tunis ( ar, تونس ') is the capital and largest city of Tunisia. The greater metropolitan area of Tunis, often referred to as " Grand Tunis", has about 2,700,000 inhabitants. , it is the third-largest city in the Maghreb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Djerba
Djerba (; ar, جربة, Jirba, ; it, Meninge, Girba), also transliterated as Jerba or Jarbah, is a Tunisian island and the largest island of North Africa at , in the Gulf of Gabès, off the coast of Tunisia. It had a population of 139,544 at the 2004 census, which rose to 163,726 at the 2014 census. Citing the long and unique history of its Jewish minority in Djerba, Tunisia has sought UNESCO World Heritage status protections for the island. History Legend has it that Djerba was the island of the lotus-eaters where Odysseus was stranded on his voyage through the Mediterranean Sea. The island was called ''Meninx'' ( grc, Μῆνιγξ) until the third century AD. Strabo writes that there was an altar of Odysseus. The island was controlled twice by the Norman Kingdom of Sicily: in 1135–1158 and in 1284–1333. During the second of these periods it was organised as a feudal lordship, with the following Lords of Jerba: * 1284–1305: Roger I * 1305–1307, and 1307–1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wajiha Jendoubi
Wajiha Jendoubi is a Tunisian actress and comedian. Biography Jendoubi was born in 1972. Originally from Kairouan, she finished her theatrical studies in 1995. For her graduation project, Jendoubi wrote a play alongside another student and played the role of a future bride, which she described as unforgettable. She was quickly noticed by Tunisian directors and appeared in several television soap operas such as ''Mnamet Aroussia'', ''Ikhwa wa Zaman'' and ''Aoudat Al Minyar'', the last of which is her best-known work. In 2010, she appeared in ''The Season of Men''. Jendoubi performed the one-woman-show ''Madame Kenza'' in 2010. She discovered the pleasure of being the only person on the stage, and her goal was to hold her audience in suspense, having fun and bringing out whatever she felt. In 2015, she was appointed alongside Myriam Belkadhi and Emna Louzyr Ayari as a representative of Tunisia for the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zakia Ben Ayed
Zakiya, Zakia, Zakiyah, Zakiyya or Zakieh may represent two different female given names of Arabic origin, namely ar, زكية (zakiat), meaning "pure", corresponding to the male name ''Zaki'', and ar, ذكيه (ḏakiyya), meaning "intelligent". Zakiah ( he, זַכִּיָה), also spelt Zakiya, Zakia, Zakiyah, or Zakayah,Hebrew Letters - Zakiya SarahLeah Hankes is a Hebrew female also meaning "pure". It may be used as a Hebrew equivalent of Katherine, owing to Katherine's supposed Greek derivation from ''katharos'' "pure". List ...
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Sadok Boutouria
Sadok may refer to: * ''Sadok'', a variant of the name Zadoc *Omrane Sadok, Tunisian boxer *Sadok, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship Sadok is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Chodecz, within Włocławek County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is div ..., a village in the administrative district of Gmina Chodecz, within Włocławek County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland. * ''Sadok'', another name for the Salakot, a Filipino traditional headgear {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamal Madani
Jamal ( ar, جمال ''/'') is an Arabic masculine given name, meaning "beauty",Jamal at BehindTheName.com and a surname. It is used in the , , , , , the |
