| Director | | Nouri Bouzid | 
Filmography
1986 L’homme de cendres/Man of Ashes
1989 Les sabots en or/Golden Horseshoes
1992 Bezness
1997 Bent Familia
2001 Poupees d’argile/Clay Dolls
2006 Making of
Biography
He was born in 1945 in Sfax,Tunisia. He studied Cinema at the INSAS in Brussels from 1968 to 1972, and made a short film, Duel. He also worked on André Delvaux’s Rendezvous à Bray. His film career was interrupted when he was imprisoned from 1973 through 1979, for his membership in GEAST (Groupe d’Etudes et d’Action Socialiste Tunisien). In 1992, France made him a Knight of Arts and Letters, and six years later he won the Presidential Prize of the Cinema in Tunisia. He now teaches at a cinema school, the EDAC, which he founded in 1994. He also writes poetry and has published a poetry collection, Sinners.
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Contemporary Wars
Making of / Nouri Bouzid |  Bahta, 25, heads up a group of break dancers in Tunisia, but after the eruption of hostilities in Iraq in 2003, he falls in with a group of fundamentalists, whose brainwashing is intended to make him a suicide bomber. In the framing story, the actor playing Bahta doesn’t know how the film will end, and he and the director have conflicts of their own.
| | Director: | Nouri Bouzid | | Script: | Nouri Bouzid | | Photographer: | Michel Baudour | | Montage: | Karim Hamouda | | Sound: | Hechemi Joulak, Michel Ben Said | | Music: | Nejib Cherradi | | Art Direction: | Khaled Joulak | | Costumes: | Monia Mnif Cherif | | With: | Lotfi Ebdelli (Bahta), Lotfi Dziri, Afef Ben Mahmoud, Fatma Ben Saidane, Foued Litayem, Helmi Dridi | | Producer: | Abdelaziz Ben Mlouka | | Production: | C.T.V. Productions, Tunisia | | Production Country: | Tunisia - Morocco | | Co-production: | Centre Cinématographique Marocain, Morocco | | Type: | 35mm Color | | Duration: | 120' | | Production Year: | 2006 | | Screening Schedule | | FRIDA LIAPPA: | Friday, November 16, 2007 - 20:30 | | JOHN CASSAVETES: | Monday, November 19, 2007 - 13:00 | | Return |
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