Férid Boughedir

Director, Writer, Actor, Producer

January 1, 1944 (82 years)
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

  • Halfaouine: Boy of the Terraces
    Halfaouine: Boy of the Terraces1990
  • A Summer in La Goulette
    A Summer in La Goulette1996
  • Eden and After
    Eden and After1970
  • Sweet Smell of Spring
    Sweet Smell of Spring2016
  • Twenty Years of African Cinema
    Twenty Years of African Cinema1983
  • Villa Jasmin
    Villa Jasmin2008
  • Unquiet Death
    Unquiet Death1970

Filmography

2017
Of Skin and Men · as Mustapha
2016
Sweet Smell of Spring · as Le Chef De La Brigade Financière
1990
Halfaouine: Boy of the Terraces · as Client Du Coiffeur

2000
L'invité · as Self

2008
Villa Jasmin · as With The Participation Of
1970
Eden and After · as First Assistant Director