Walid Mattar (born June 7, 1980) is a Tunisian

film director A film director or filmmaker is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that Goal, vision. The director has a key role ...

. He grew up in

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 Casabl ...

and moved to France at the age of 23. Interested in film from an early age, he joined the Tunisian Faculty of Amateur Cinematographers when he was just 13. He made a number of short films before directing his first feature-length movie in 2017, titled ''Vent du Nord'' (''North Wind'').

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