Férid Boughedir (born 1944) is a Tunisian

film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...

and

screenwriter A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based. ...

Career

Boughedir has directed five films since 1983. His film '' Caméra d'Afrique'' was screened at the

1983 Cannes Film Festival The 36th Cannes Film Festival was held from 7 to 19 May 1983. The Palme d'Or went to the '' Narayama Bushiko'' by Shōhei Imamura. In 1983, the new building for the main events of the festival, the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès, was inaug ...

. In 1996, his film ''

Un été à La Goulette ''A Summer in La Goulette'' (french: Un été à La Goulette, ar, صيف حلق الوادي, ṣayf Ḥalq el-Wādī) is a 1996 film by Tunisian director Férid Boughedir. It is a narrative of how intercommunal relations deteriorated in cosmopo ...

'' was entered into the

46th Berlin International Film Festival The 46th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 15 to 26 February 1996. The Golden Bear was awarded to British-American film ''Sense and Sensibility'' directed by Ang Lee. The retrospective dedicated to American film director, p ...

. The following year, he was a member of the jury at the

47th Berlin International Film Festival The 47th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 13 to 24 February 1997. The Golden Bear was awarded to Canadian-American film ''The People vs. Larry Flynt'' directed by Miloš Forman. The retrospective dedicated to Austrian film ...

Filmography

* '' Caméra d'Afrique'' (1983) * '' Caméra arabe'' (1987) * ''

Halfaouine Child of the Terraces Halfaouine - Child of the Terraces is a Tunisian film made in 1990, the first fiction feature film by the director Ferid Boughedir. Synopsis In Halfaouine, a Tunis neighbourhood, young Noura, finely acted by the director's nephew, is divided ...

'' (1990) * ''

'' (1996) * '' Villa Jasmin'' (2008)

References

External links

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Les gens du cinéma

Interview with the director
by Giuseppe Sedia at ''Clapnoir.org'' - 27 May 2008. * 1944 births Living people Tunisian film directors Tunisian screenwriters People from Hammam Lif {{Tunisia-film-director-stub