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Lotfi Abdelli
Lotfi Abdelli (, born March 14, 1970, in Tunis) is a Tunisian actor and comedian. Biography Lotfi Abdelli started his artistic career as a dancer in Tunis Conservatory, under the direction of Anne-Marie Sellami, and then in the ballet of the National Theatre of Tunisia, under the direction of Mohamed Driss, also in the Tunisian national ballet, under the direction of Odile Cougoule (''Histoires d'elles'' show in 1991), Nawel Skandrani and Imed Jemâa in her company, ''the Dance Theater''. He participated as a dancer in the show of ''Hadhra'' by Fadhel Jaziri. In film acting, he won the award of best performance by an actor in the Carthage Film Festival of 2006 for his role in the film ''Making Of (2006 film), Making Of'' by Nouri Bouzid. In August 2012, his one-man show ''100% Hallal'' was cancelled by salafist protesters, who claimed they wanted to pray in the room that was reserved for the show as a way of disrupting it. In June 2015, he presented the show ''Chich Bich'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tunis
Tunis (, ') is the capital city, capital and largest city of Tunisia. The greater metropolitan area of Tunis, often referred to as "Grand Tunis", has about 2,700,000 inhabitants. , it is the third-largest city in the Maghreb region (after Casablanca and Algiers) and the List of largest cities in the Arab world, eleventh-largest in the Arab world. Situated on the Gulf of Tunis, behind the Lake of Tunis and the port of La Goulette (Ḥalq il-Wād), the city extends along the coastal plain and the hills that surround it. At its core lies the Medina of Tunis, Medina, a World Heritage Site. East of the Medina, through the Sea Gate (also known as the ''Bab el Bhar'' and the ''Porte de France''), begins the modern part of the city called "Ville Nouvelle", traversed by the grand Avenue Habib Bourguiba (often referred to by media and travel guides as "the Tunisian Champs-Élysées"), where the colonial-era buildings provide a clear contrast to smaller, older structures. Further east by th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylvain Estibal
Sylvain Estibal (born 13 March 1967) is a French reporter, author and film director. The film '' The Last Flight'' was based on Estibal's 2006 book. He directed the film '' When Pigs Have Wings'' for which he was awarded the César Award for Best Debut. References External links * 1967 births Living people French male film actors Place of birth missing (living people) {{France-novelist-20thC-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
France 24
France 24 ( in French) is a French state-owned publicly funded international news television network based in Paris. Its channels, broadcast in French, English, Arabic and Spanish, are aimed at the overseas market. Based in the Paris suburb of Issy-les-Moulineaux, the service started on 6 December 2006. It is aimed at a worldwide market and is generally broadcast by pay television providers around the world, but additionally, in 2010, France 24 began broadcasting online through its own iPhone and Android apps. It is a provider of live streaming world news which can be viewed via its website, YouTube, and various mobile devices and digital media players. The stated mission of the channels is to "provide a global public service and a common editorial stance". Since 2008 the channel has been wholly owned by the French government, via its holding company France Médias Monde, having bought out the minority share of the former partners: Groupe TF1 and France Télévisions. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Crocodile
The Crocodile (formerly the Crocodile Cafe, and sometimes called The Croc) is a music club at 2505 1st Avenue at Wall Street in the Belltown neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, United States. Opened by Stephanie Dorgan as the "Crocodile Cafe" on April 30, 1991, it quickly became a fixture of the city's music scene. The Crocodile Cafe closed in December 2007, before being reopened as ''The Crocodile'' on March 21, 2009. Since then, the club has been owned by Alice in Chains' drummer Sean Kinney, manager Susan Silver, Portugal. The Man guitarist Eric Howk, Peggy Curtis, and Capitol Hill Block Party co-founder Marcus Charles. The Crocodile relocated to a bigger building at 2505 1st Avenue, four blocks away from its original location (2200 2nd Avenue). In 2013, ''Rolling Stone'' ranked The Crocodile as the seventh best club in the U.S., and ''The Guardian'' included the club in its list of the top 10 live music venues in Seattle. Artists such as Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nessma TV
Nessma El Jadida (, translation: New Breeze), formerly known as Nessma TV (, translation: "Breeze TV") and Nessma Rouge (, translation: Red Breeze) was a commercial TV channel based in Tunisia, targeting Tunisia and the Maghreb countries. It was 25% formerly owned by the Italian company Mediaset, controlled by Silvio Berlusconi. All programmes broadcast on this channel had subtitles in French or Maghrebi Arabic. It broadcast such programs as the Maghrebi version of '' Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?'', called '' Man sa yarbah al malyoon''. History The TV channel was launched on 16 March 2007, by Nabil and Ghazi Karoui, in partnership with Berlusconi and Tarak Ben Ammar. It was created as a subsidiary of Karoui & Karoui World Group. In January 2017, Nessma Live was launched. On October 4, Nessma Sport, a streaming Streaming media refers to multimedia delivered through a network for playback using a media player. Media is transferred in a ''stream'' of packets f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nejib Belkadhi
Nejib Belkadhi (; born May 13, 1976, in Tunis, Tunisia) is a Tunisian actor and director. Education He studied marketing and management at the Carthage High Commercial Studies Institute in Carthage, before he started a career in arts. Career Nejib had his first acting role in ''Hbiba Msika'' (''Dancer of the Flame''), a film by Selma Baccar, in 1995. He then starred in Mohamed Kouka's play ''Madrasat Nisaa''(مدرسة النساء / ''The Women's School''), however, Nejib's best success was in the series ''El Khottab Al Bab'' (الخطاب عالباب /''Many Fiancees'') appearing in both volumes 1 and 2 (1996–1998) for the director Slaheddine Essid. Nejib Belkadhi began his career in directing during 1998 on the TV network ''Canal+ Horizons'', covering the Carthage Film Festival, before creating the network's most successful TV show: ''Chams Alik'' (شمس عليك ), whose concept revolutionized the Tunisian TV scene. He conceived, produced and co-presented the show f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdelhamid Bouchnak
Abdelhamid Bouchnak ( Bosnian: Abdulhamid Bošnjak, born in 1984), is a Tunisian filmmaker. He is best known as the director of Tunisian horror film ''Dachra''. Personal life He was born in 1984 in Tunis, Tunisia. His father Lotfi Bouchnak is a popular Tunisian singer renowned Oud player. Abdelhamid studied at the Higher School of Science and Technology of Design in Tunis (ESAC) in Gammarth. Then he attended to the University of Montreal and graduated with a degree in film studies. Career After graduation, he became a director within the company Shkoon Production. However, initially he worked as a cinematographer in the web series ''Ta7ana'', and the television series ''Hedhoukom''. He also involved in short films as the cinematographer in ''Alliance'' in 2011 and then ''Le Bonbon'' in 2016. After few years, he directed the historical docufiction, ''Jadis Kerkouane''. In 2018, Abdelhamid directed his maiden feature film, ''Dachra'', a horror film. The film received critical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madih Belaid
Madih Belaïd (born 1 January 1974), is a Tunisian filmmaker. He is best known as the director of critically acclaimed television serials and feature films ''Naouret El Hawa'', ''Al Akaber'' and ''Allo''. Personal life He was born on 1 January 1974 in Sousse Sousse, Sūsah , or Soussa (, ), is a city in Tunisia, capital of the Sousse Governorate. Located south of the capital Tunis, the city has 271,428 inhabitants (2014). Sousse is in the central-east of the country, on the Gulf of Hammamet, which ..., Tunisia. He is married to Tunisian actress Rim Riahi where the couple has three children. Career He studied filmmaking at the Maghrebian Institute of Cinema in Tunis from 1994 to 1997. After various internships in audiovisual and directing, he became assistant director on several shoots in Tunisia and abroad and took part in scriptwriting workshops in France, Germany and Morocco. In 1996, he wrote and directed first short films: ''Tout bouille rien ne bouge''. Then he directe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ali Mansur
Ali Khan Mansur (, also known as ''Mansur ul-Mulk'' (); 1886 – 8 December 1974) was the prime minister of Iran for two terms between 1940 and 1941 and in 1950. Biography Born in Tehran, he served as Governor of Khorasan and Azarbaijan provinces, and was an ambassador to Italy, The Vatican, and Turkey. He served twice as Prime Minister (from 1940 to 1941, and again in 1950) and six times as Cabinet Minister. He resigned as Prime Minister several days after 25 August 1941, when British and Soviet troops invaded Iran to suppress German activity. Before World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ..., Mansur was the minister of roads and railway during construction of the Trans-Iranian Railway. After World War II, Mansur was appointed governor general ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdelkader Jerbi
Abdelkader Jerbi (; died 3 February 2021) was a Tunisian film director. Jerbi died from COVID-19 in 2021. Filmography Television movies *2008: Choufli Hal (Find me a solution), text by Hatem Belhaj Television series *1986: Raoudha, your daughter, text by Habib Hrar *1986: Khatini, (I don't care) text by Chedli Ben Younes, Monji El Ouni and Noureddine Ben Ayed *1990: Hokm El Ayem (The destiny of days), text by Slaheddine Chelbi *1992: El Douar ( ar), text by Abdelkader Jerbi and Hussein Mahnouch *1993: El Assifa (The storm), text by Ahmed Ameur Tounsi and Abdelkader Jerbi *1995: El Hassad (Desire) with Moncef Baldi and Abdelhakim Alimi *1998–2001: Souloukiyet (Behavior) with Boubaker El Euch and text by Belgacem Thabet *2000: Ya Zahra Fi Khayali (Oh! Flower in my imagination!), text by Mustapha Adouani, Adem Fathi and Ridha Gaham *2001: Malla Ena (Quel Moi!) with Hichem Akermi and text by Sihem Benzarti *2003: Douroub Elmouejha (Ways of confrontation), text by Abdelkader Belha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lotfi Achour
Lotfi Achour (Arabic: لطفي عاشور) is a Tunisian writer, producer and director for theater and cinema. He is the author of more than 25 theater productions on different stages (London, Paris, Festival In d'Avignon, Tunis, Carthage, Hammamet, Byblos, Kinshasa, Yaoundé…). His last show was co-produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company for the 2012 Summer Olympics, 2012 Olympic Games London. In cinema, he produced three award-winning shorts presented at dozens of festivals, including ''Father (Père)'' and ''Law of Lamb (La Laine sur le dos)'', which screened in the short film competition at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. In 2016, he directed and produced his first feature film, ''Burning Hope (Demain dès l'aube)''. He followed up in 2024 with ''Red Path (Les Enfants rouges)''.Amber Wilkinson"‘Red Path’: Thessaloniki Review" ''Screen Daily'', 7 November 2024. Early life He was born in Bab Souika, an emblematic cultural area of the Medina of Tunis. Achour arrived i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rebecca Cremona
Rebecca Cremona is a Maltese film director, screenwriter and producer. Her debut feature film, '' Simshar'', was the first Maltese film to be submitted for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. In 2020, Cremona was honoured with the Order of Merit from the President of Malta for her contributions to the island's cultural sphere. Education Cremona obtained a BFA (Hons) in Film and Comparative Literature from the University of Warwick, UK, and attended the directing MFA at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles where she made three short films and production designed two others. She obtained her MFA (Hons) from Art Center College of Design. There, Cremona wrote and directed ''Magdalene'' (2009) which went on to win a Student EMMY and a Directors Guild of America award. Career Early in her career, Cremona worked on a number of films shot in Malta, most notably Munich Munich is the capital and most populous city of Bavaria, Germany. As of 30 Novembe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
