Moufida Tlatli

Moufida Tlatli (; 4 August 19477 February 2021) was a Tunisian film director, screenwriter, and editor. She is best known for her breakthrough film The Silences of the Palace, which won several international awards and was praised by critics. She made two more well received movies,The Season of Men and Nadia and Sarra.

Early life Moufida Tlatli was born in Sidi Bou Said, a suburb of the capital Tunis, on 4 August 1947. Her interest in cinema was piqued by her philosophy teacher. She moved to Paris in 1965, where she studied film editing and screenplay at the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques. She subsequently went back to Tunisia in 1972 and started off as a film editor. One of the notable films she edited was Halfaouine Child of the Terraces (1990) by Férid Boughedir.

The second film Moufida Tlatli directed, The Season of Men (2000), was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival that year. It was awarded the Grand Prix by the Arab World Institute, as well as awards at film festivals held in Namur, Valencia, Torino, and Stuttgart. Her third and final film, Nadia and Sarra (2004), featured Palestinian actor–director Hiam Abbass in the title role.

Tlatli died of COVID-19 on 7 February 2021, at age 73.

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