The Tanit d'or is the grand
prize
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Carthage Film Festival, hosted annually in
Tunisia
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. The award is named for the
lunar goddess of ancient
Carthage
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and takes the shape of her symbol, a
triangle
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surmounted by a horizontal line and a circle.
Previous winners of the Tanit d'or include:
*1976: ''
Les Ambassadeurs'' by
Naceur Ktari
Naceur Ktari (born 1943) is a filmmaker from Tunisia.
Early life and education
Ktari was born in Sayada in Tunisia on 17 May 1943. Ktari studied film in Paris and later in Rome. He worked as an assistant on Raiders of the Lost Ark when Steven Sp ...
*1988: ''
Wedding in Galilee'', by
Michel Khleifi, Palestine,
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*1992: ''La nuit'' (Mohamed Malas
Mohammad Malas ( ar, محمد ملص; born 1945) is a prominent Syrian filmmaker. Malas directed several documentary and feature films that garnered international recognition. He is among the first auteur filmmakers in Syrian cinema.Ginsberg; Li ...
, Syria
Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...
)
*1994: ''Les silences du palais'' (Arabic: صمت القصور) (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 internatio ...
, Tunisia
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*1996: ''Salut cousin'' (Merzak Allouache
Merzak Allouache (born 6 October 1944) is an Algerian film director and screenwriter. His 1976 film ''Omar Gatlato'' was later entered into the 10th Moscow International Film Festival where it won the Silver Prize. His 1996 '' Salut cousin!'' w ...
, Algeria
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*1998: ''Vivre au paradis'' ( Bourlem Guerdjou, Algeria)
*2000: ''Dolé'' ( Imunga Ivanga, Gabon
Gabon (; ; snq, Ngabu), officially the Gabonese Republic (french: République gabonaise), is a country on the west coast of Central Africa. Located on the equator, it is bordered by Equatorial Guinea to the northwest, Cameroon to the north ...
)
*2002: ''Le prix du pardon'' (Mansour Sora Wade
Mansour Sora Wade (born 1952, in Dakar) is a Senegalese film director of Lebou people ancestry. He studied at Paris 8 University and went on to direct the audiovisual archives for the Senegalese Ministry of Culture, a job he held from 1977 to 1 ...
, Senegal
Senegal,; Wolof: ''Senegaal''; Pulaar: 𞤅𞤫𞤲𞤫𞤺𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭 (Senegaali); Arabic: السنغال ''As-Sinighal'') officially the Republic of Senegal,; Wolof: ''Réewum Senegaal''; Pulaar : 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤭 � ...
)
*2004: ''A Casablanca, les anges ne volent pas'' ( Mohamed Asli, Morocco
Morocco (),, ) officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is the westernmost country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to ...
)
*2006: ''Making-Off ''(Arabic: آخر فيلم) ( Nouri Bouzid, Tunisia
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*2010: ''Microphone
A microphone, colloquially called a mic or mike (), is a transducer that converts sound into an electrical signal. Microphones are used in many applications such as telephones, hearing aids, public address systems for concert halls and public ...
''(Arabic:ميكروفون) (Ahmad Abdalla
Ahmad Abdalla El Sayed Abdelkader ( ar, أحمد عبد الله السيد) (born on December 19, 1979, Cairo) is an Egyptian film director, editor and screenwriter.
His debut feature film is '' Heliopolis'' (2009); his second film is ''Microph ...
, Egypt
Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediter ...
)
*2018: ''Fatwa'' (Arabic: فتوى) (Mahmoud Ben Mahmoud
Mahmoud Ben Mahmoud (born in 1947, Tunis) is a Tunisian film writer and producer.
Biography
Mahmoud was born in 1947 in Tunis, Tunisia, to a family of Turkish origin who had settled in Tunisia in 1710. His father was a theologian and amateur art ...
, Tunisia
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*2022: ''Tug of War'' ''(''Swahili: Vuta N'Kuvute)( Amil Shivji, Tanzania)
References
External links
Carthage Film Festival official site
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Tunisian film awards