Drama. Nadia is 45 years old and teaches at the university of Tunis. She has a lovely home, a husband and an eighteen-year-old daughter, Sarra. And yet Nadia feels terribly unhappy since menopause has started. She feels neglected by her husband who is increasingly away and hardly considered by the daughter who lives her private life in secret. —BFI
Moufida Tlatli (born in Sidi Bou Saïd in 1947) is a Tunisian film director. She was the first Arab woman to direct a full featured-film (The Silences of the Palace) in the Arab World. She was born in Sidi Bou Saïd suburb of the capital Tunis in 1947. She said that she discovered her love to cinema with the help of her philosophy teacher.
After graduating from the French Institut des hautes études cinématographiques in 1968, she returned to Tunisia where she worked as a film editor for different Tunisian films.
She directed her first featured-film The Silences of the Palace in 1994. The film was acclaimed critically and won several awards : Cannes Film Festival’s Golden Camera, the Golden Tanit of Carthage, British Film Institute Awards’ Sutherland Trophy, Toronto Film Festival’s International Critics’ Award and Istanbul International Film Festival’s Golden Tulip.
Her second film, The Season of Men, was screened in the Un Certain Regard… read more