Born in Sidi Bou Said, Tunisia, in 1947 and dying in 2021, Moufida Tlatli studied film in Paris and worked for years as an editor, cutting films for Tunisian, Algerian and Moroccan directors, including Nouri Bouzid. She became a director in her forties. The Silences of the Palace (Samt el qusur, 1994), a woman's memory of growing up as the daughter of a servant and a prince's mistress in a Tunisian royal palace in the 1950s, was acclaimed at Cannes and is among the best known films by an Arab woman. The Season of Men (2000) followed. She was also Tunisia's Minister of Culture in 2011.
Filmography
- The Silences of the Palace (1994)
- The Season of Men (2000)