Najwa Tlili is a Tunisian film director living in Montreal, Canada.

Najwa Tlili
BornTunisia Edit this on Wikidata
OccupationFilm director Edit this on Wikidata

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

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  • al-Shigara/Héritage ("Heritage"), fiction, 35 mm, 26 min, 1994.[1]
  • Infisal/Rupture, documentary, video, 52 min, 1997.[1]

Bibliography

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  • Répertoire des femmes d’images de l'Afrique francophone. Montréal: Vues d’ Afrique, 1994.[3]

References

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  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ George Elliott Clarke (2017). Odysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature. Internet Archive. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-1-4875-1661-1.