The Tanit d'or is the grand

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Carthage Film Festival Carthage Film Festival (Journées cinématographiques de Carthage, or JCC) is an annual film festival that takes place in Tunis, founded in 1966. It is also known by its Arabic title, ("Cinema Days of Carthage"). Initially biennial alternating ...

, hosted annually in

Tunisia Tunisia, officially the Republic of Tunisia, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered by Algeria to the west and southwest, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east. Tunisia also shares m ...

. The award is named after

Tanit Tanit or Tinnit (Punic language, Punic: 𐤕𐤍𐤕 ''Tīnnīt'' (JStor)) was a chief deity of Ancient Carthage; she derives from a local Berber deity and the consort of Baal Hammon. As Ammon is a local Libyan deity, so is Tannit, who represents ...

, the

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of ancient

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and takes the shape of her symbol, a

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surmounted by a horizontal line and a circle.

Winners

Previous winners of the Tanit d'or include: *1976: '' Les Ambassadeurs'' by Naceur Ktari *1988: ''

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'', by

Michel Khleifi Michel Khleifi (), born in 1950 in Nazareth, is a Palestinian ( 48-Palestinian) film writer, director and producer, presently based in Belgium. Khleifi emigrated to Belgium in 1970, where he studied television and theatre directing at the '' Inst ...

, Palestine *1992: '' The Night'' (Arabic: الليل) (

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) *1994: ''Les silences du palais'' (Arabic: صمت القصور) (

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, Tunisia) *1996: ''Salut cousin'' ( Merzak Allouache,

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) *1998: ''Vivre au paradis'' ( Bourlem Guerdjou, Algeria) *2000: ''Dolé'' ( Imunga Ivanga,

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) *2002: ''Le prix du pardon'' (

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) *2004: ''A Casablanca, les anges ne volent pas'' ( Mohamed Asli,

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) *2006: ''Making-Off ''(Arabic: آخر فيلم) ( Nouri Bouzid, Tunisia) *2010: ''

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''(Arabic:ميكروفون) ( Ahmad Abdalla,

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) *2018: ''Fatwa'' (Arabic: فتوى) ( Mahmoud Ben Mahmoud,

) *2022: ''Tug of War'' (''Swahili: Vuta N'Kuvute'') ( Amil Shivji, Tanzania)

References

External links

* of the Carthage Film Festival {{film-award-stub Tunisian film awards Tanit