Férid Boughedir

A Tunisian film director writer critic and historian born in 1944 in HammamLif 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 dAfrique was shown in 1983 as well as Caméra Arabe in 1987