Moufida Tlatli

Moufida Tlatli was born on 4 August 1947 in Sidi Bou Said. Leaving for Paris in 1965, she studied editing and screenwriting at the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques, from which she graduated in 1968. Back in Tunisia in 1972, she became an editor and worked for Merzak Allouache, Farouk Beloufa, Michel Khleifi or Férid Boughedir, before directing three feature films, in 1994, 2000 and 2004. She was in January 2011 the country's first woman Minister of Culture, in the provisional government, and died in Tunis on 7 February 2021, at the age of seventy-three.

In the catalogue 1

• CinemaThe Silences of the Palaceصمت القصورMoufida Tlatli · 1994Cinema