Férid Boughedir

Férid Boughedir was born in 1944 in Hammam-Lif. A critic and academic, he first became known for two documentaries on the cinemas of Africa and of the Arab world, in 1983 and 1987, shown at Cannes in the official selection. He served as a juror at Cannes, Berlin and Venice, chaired several pan-African and pan-Arab festivals, and directed the Carthage Film Days in 1992 and 2006, before being named honorary president in 2024. He made other fiction feature films in 1996, 2008 and 2016.

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• CinemaHalfaouine: Boy of the TerracesحلفاوينFérid Boughedir · 1990Cinema