MAKING OF

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 Andre Delvaux’s Rendezvous a 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.