Moufida Tlatli is a Tunisian film director, screenwriter and editor. She is noted for her breakthrough film The Silences of the Palace in 1994, which won several international awards. She went on to direct two more films: The Season of Men and Nadia and Sarra.
Filming Desire: A Journey Through Women’s Cinema
Self
2000-07-09
The film consists largely of a series of interviews with female filmmakers from several different countries and filmmaking eras. Some, such as Agnès …
Moufida Tlatli Directing Movies
Movie Name
Job
Release Date
Overview
The Silences of the Palace
Director
1994-09-30
The death of a prince brings a young woman back to the palace where she was born into servitude. The lingering legacy of the harem is brought into lig…
Nadia and Sarra
Director
2004-10-28
Nadia is a 45 year old female professor at the University of Tunis. She is married and has a daughter of 18, Sarra. For some time, Nadia has problems …
The Season of Men
Director
2000-09-13
An 18 year old on the island Djerba, Aicha, is married to Said, who works in Tunis for much of the year. Aicha breaks with tradition and decides to jo…
Writing
Movie Name
Job
Release Date
Overview
The Season of Men
Writer
2000-09-13
An 18 year old on the island Djerba, Aicha, is married to Said, who works in Tunis for much of the year. Aicha breaks with tradition and decides to jo…
The Silences of the Palace
Writer
1994-09-30
The death of a prince brings a young woman back to the palace where she was born into servitude. The lingering legacy of the harem is brought into lig…
Nadia and Sarra
Writer
2004-10-28
Nadia is a 45 year old female professor at the University of Tunis. She is married and has a daughter of 18, Sarra. For some time, Nadia has problems …
Other Info
Movie Name
Job
Release Date
Overview
Crossing Over
Editor
1983-07-01
Mahmoud Ben Mahmoud’s first feature film….
Halfaouine: Boy of the Terraces
Editor
1990-09-14
Twelve-year-old Noura dangles uncertainly in that difficult netherworld between childhood and adulthood. His growing libido has gotten him banned from…
The Silences of the Palace
Editor
1994-09-30
The death of a prince brings a young woman back to the palace where she was born into servitude. The lingering legacy of the harem is brought into lig…
Fatma 75
Editor
1975-01-02
A pioneering film from Tunisia, Fatma 75 is the first non-fiction film by a Tunisian woman, a feminist essay film, and the first in a series of powerf…
The Trace
Editor
1988-01-02
A determined young woman in a remote Tunisian city bucks tradition by studying for an academic degree, instead of accepting the time-honored, submissi…
Omar Gatlato
Editor
1976-07-15
A watershed film, Omar Gatlato held a mirror up to Algerian male culture and the mirror cracked. The title refers to the expression “gatlato al-rujula…
Farouk Beloufa’s only directorial endeavor follows the life of a group of leftist friends in West Beirut in the early 1970s. Coupled with its explorat…
Aziza
Editor
1980-01-02
Directed by Abdellatif Ben Ammar….
Wanderers of the Desert
Editor
1984-01-01
The first of Nacer Khemir’s highly-regarded Desert Trilogy that includes The Dove’s Lost Necklace and Bab’Aziz – The Prince Who Contemplated His Soul….
Canticle of Stones
Editor
1990-01-02
Two Palestinian lovers, parted during the 60s when he is imprisoned for resisting the Israeli occupation and she sorrowfully emigrates to the US, come…
Sejnane
Editor
1974-01-02
Kemal studies in the Sadiki boarding school. Since the death of his father who was murdered by a secret colonial organization, Kemal has doubts about …
A Door to the Sky
Editor
1989-01-01
In this Sufi tale, Nadia, a young Moroccan emigre returns from Paris to Fez to visit her dying father. At his funeral, she is overcome by the voice of…
Fertile Memory
Editor
1980-01-02
The first full length film to be shot within the disputed Palestinian West Bank “Green Line,” FERTILE MEMORY is the feature debut of Michel Khleifi, a…
The Shadow of the Earth
Editor
1982-01-02
Rich in environmental mood and ethnic color, this human drama chronicles the lives and rituals of a nomadic Berber tribe in the southern Tunisian dese…
