Nouri Bouzid (born 1945) is a Tunisian

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and

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. He has directed seven films between 1986 and 2006. His film '' Man of Ashes'' was screened in the

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. Three years later, his film '' Golden Horseshoes'' was screened in the same section at the 1989 festival. Bouzid was featured in a 2009 documentary film about the experience of cinema in different cultures called '' Cinema Is Everywhere''.

Selected filmography

* '' Man of Ashes'' (1986) * '' Golden Horseshoes'' (1989) * ''

Bezness Bezness (Arabic: بزناس) is a Tunisian film directed by Nouri Bouzid in 1992. Synopsis Fred, a photographer, is in Tunisia to report on the « Bezness » (male prostitutes). Thanks to Roufa, Fred will discover this surprising environment ...

'' (1992) * ''

The Silences of the Palace ''The Silences of the Palace'' () is a 1994 Tunisian film co-written and directed by Moufida Tlatli. The film investigates issues of gender, class and sexuality in the Arab world through the lives of two generations of women at a prince's palace. ...

'' (1994 - writer) * ''

A Summer in La Goulette ''A Summer in La Goulette'' (, ) is a 1996 film by Tunisian director Férid Boughedir. It is a narrative of how intercommunal relations deteriorated in cosmopolitan La Goulette after the end of French rule, especially Muslim-Jewish relations aff ...

'' (1996 - writer) * ''

Bent Familia ''Bent Familia'' is a 1997 drama set in Tunisia about Amina (Leila Nassim) a married Muslim woman living in Tunis with her two daughters. Even though she is allowed certain freedoms as a Muslim woman this is curtailed when she meets her old frie ...

'' (1997) * ''

The Season of Men ''The Season of Men'' (, translit. ''Maussim al-rijal'', ) is a 2000 French-Tunisian drama film directed by Moufida Tlatli. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival. The title of the film, The Seaso ...

'' (2000 - writer) * ''

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'' (2006)

Awards

*The

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for the year 2007 in

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. *Officer of the

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(

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, 2009) *Knight of the

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(France, 2013) *Special Human Rights Award (

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, 2019)

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* 1945 births Living people People from Sfax Tunisian film directors Tunisian screenwriters {{Tunisia-film-director-stub