Férid Boughedir
- Known for
- Directing
- Birthplace
- Tunis
A Tunisian film director, writer, critic and historian born in 1944 in Hammam-Lif, Tunisia. His film, Halfaouine: Boy of the Terraces, is considered his most famous film and it won him the Golden Tanit Award at the 1990 Carthage Film Festival. He worked as a journalist in the magazine Jeune Afrique, in addition to his work as a professor at the University of Tunis. He has published several books on the history of African and Arab cinema. Many of his documentaries were shown at international festivals, the most important of which is the Cannes Film Festival, where the film Caméra d'Afrique was shown in 1983, as well as Caméra Arabe in 1987.
Filmography
Of Skin and Men 2018
as Mustapha
Férid Boughedir: de l'Émotion Tunisienne au Rêve Universel 2016
Actor
Sweet Smell of Spring 2016
Director, Producer, Writer
Tahar Chériaa: A l'Ombre du Baobab 2014
as Self
Villa Jasmin 2008
Director
A Summer in La Goulette 1996
Director, Screenplay, Adaptation
Sous les marches du palais 1991
as Self
Halfaouine: Boy of the Terraces 1990
Director, Writer
Arab Camera 1987
as Narrator, Producer, Writer, Director
Twenty Years of African Cinema 1983
Director, Writer
In the Land of Tararani 1972
Director
Eden and After 1970
First Assistant Director
Unquiet Death 1970
Director, Writer
Credits from TMDB.