Mahmoud Ben Mahmoud (born in 1947,

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) is a

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n film writer and producer.

Biography

Mahmoud was born in 1947 in

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, to a family of

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origin who had settled in Tunisia in 1710. His father was a

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and amateur artist and writer, which, to an extent, influenced the personality of the young Mahmoud. He studied at the

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school of cinema where he completed his graduation in field of filming. Later, he studied art history, archeology and journalism at the

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(ULB). These multidisciplinary studies gave him a solid training to face the field of cinema. He first tried to make it as a film writer by participating in the writing of two films: ''The Son of Amr's death'' (''Le Fils d'Amr est mort'') of

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and ''Kfar Kassem'' of Borhane Alaoui. Soon after, Mahmoud made his first feature film ''Crossings'' (''Traversées'') in 1982. His second feature film, released in 1992, ''Chichkhan, Diamond Dust'' (''Chichkhan, poussière de diamant'') was selected for

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at the

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. Mahmoud has also released a number of documentary films between 1992 and 2006, such as: ''Italiani dell'altra riva'' (1992), ''Anastasia de Bizerte'' (1996), ''Albert Samama-Chikli'' (1996), ''Ennejma Ezzahra'' (1998), ''The Thousand and One Voices'' (2001), ''Fadhel Jaibi, a Theatre in Freedom'' (2003) and ''The Beys of Tunis, a colonial monarchy in turmoil'' (''Les Beys de Tunis, une monarchie dans la tourmente'')(2006). Meanwhile, he has still continued to make films that have marked his film career success, such as ''Naps grenadines'' which was released in 2003.

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