Moncef Dhouib

Director

“Ultimately, cinema brought me far more than “pretty and rich” girls, the debates opened my horizons, I learned to read films and decipher the language of cinema. To impress the pretty rich girls, I became unbeatable in the field. ”

Biography

Moncef Dhouib Born in 1952 in Sfax, Tunisia, Dhouib graduated from the University Paris III returning to Tunisia to work in street puppet theatre. Beginning in the 1980s, he directed a series of short films: Hammam D’Hab (1985), The Trance (El-Hadhrah, 1989) and Earth (Tourba, 1996). His first feature, The Sultan of the Medina (Soltane el-Medina, 1993), earned him critical and popular success. Dhouib’s play El-Mekki and Zakia ran for six years on stage in Tunisia. The TV Is Coming is his second feature-length fiction film. —sydneyarabfilmfestival.com