Najwa Tlili
Najwa Tlili | |
|---|---|
| Born | Tunisia  |
| Occupation | Film director |
Najwa Tlili is a Tunisian film director living in Montreal, Canada.
Tlili was born in southwestern Tunisia. She studied at the Sorbonne in Paris. She moved to Montreal in 1991.[1]
Her first film, Heritage (1994), is about a woman, Selma, who returns to her home in Tunisia but feels disconnected from her cultural background.[1] Tlili describes it as "a voyage deep in my memory, a memory of the footprints that I left in Tunisia. I travelled in these tracks."[2] Rupture (1997) is a documentary about domestic violence focusing on two Tunisian women in Canada. [1][2]
Tlili compiled a directory of women filmmakers, Répertoire des femmes d’images de l'Afrique francophone (1994).[2]
Filmography
[edit]- al-Shigara/Héritage ("Heritage"), fiction, 35 mm, 26 min, 1994.[1]
- Infisal/Rupture, documentary, video, 52 min, 1997.[1]
Bibliography
[edit]- Répertoire des femmes d’images de l'Afrique francophone. Montréal: Vues d’ Afrique, 1994.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e Hillauer, Rebecca (2005). Encyclopedia of Arab women filmmakers (Rev. and updated ed.). Cairo: American University in Cairo Press. pp. 447–448. ISBN 978-977-424-943-3. OCLC 64385808.
- ^ a b c Ellerson, Beti (2000). Sisters of the screen : women of Africa on film, video and television. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press. ISBN 978-0-86543-712-8.
- ^ George Elliott Clarke (2017). Odysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature. Internet Archive. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-1-4875-1661-1.