Nacer Khemir

Nacer Khemir was born in 1948 in Korba. A Unesco scholarship holder, he left in 1966 to study cinema in Paris. In 1972, he collected the stories of the storytellers of the medina of Tunis, then published in 1975 a calligraphed tale. A storyteller himself, he was invited in 1982 and in 1988 to the Théâtre national de Chaillot for a month of Arab tales, a new story each evening, in a scenography by Yannis Kokkos. A draughtsman, sculptor and calligrapher, he exhibited at the Centre Pompidou, and his following films won prizes at Locarno and Belfort.

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• CinemaWanderers of the DesertالهائمونNacer Khemir · 1984Cinema