Najwa Tlili

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

Biography Tlili was born in southwestern Tunisia. She studied at the Sorbonne in Paris. She moved to Montreal in 1991.

Her first film, Heritage (1994), is about a woman, Selma, who returns to her home in Tunisia but feels disconnected from her cultural background. Rupture (1997) is a documentary about domestic violence focusing on two Tunisian women in Canada.