Férid Boughedir

Directing · Tunis

A Tunisian film director, writer, critic and historian born in 1944 in Hammam-Lif, Tunisia. His film, Halfaouine: Boy of the Terraces, is considered his most famous film and it won him the Golden Tanit Award at the 1990 Carthage Film Festival. He worked as a journalist in the magazine Jeune Afrique, in addition to his work as a professor at the University of Tunis. He has published several books on the history of African and Arab cinema. Many of his documentaries were shown at international festivals, the most important of which is the Cannes Film Festival, where the film Caméra d'Afrique was shown in 1983, as well as Caméra Arabe in 1987.

Known for

6.4

Halfaouine: Boy of the Terraces

1990 · Director

6.1

A Summer in La Goulette

1996 · Director

4.9

Unquiet Death

1970 · Director

4.0

Sweet Smell of Spring

2016 · Director

6.0

Arab Camera

1987 · Director

6.3

Twenty Years of African Cinema

1983 · Director

3.8

Villa Jasmin

2008 · Director

In the Land of Tararani

1972 · Director

Directed

4.0

Sweet Smell of Spring

2016 · Director

3.8

Villa Jasmin

2008 · Director

6.1

A Summer in La Goulette

1996 · Director

6.4

Halfaouine: Boy of the Terraces

1990 · Director

6.0

Arab Camera

1987 · Director

6.3

Twenty Years of African Cinema

1983 · Director

In the Land of Tararani

1972 · Director

4.9

Unquiet Death

1970 · Director

Acting

5.7

Of Skin and Men

2018 · Mustapha

Férid Boughedir: de l'Émotion Tunisienne au Rêve Universel

2016

6.0

Arab Camera

1987 · Narrator