Najwa Tlili Explained
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Najwa Tlili is a Tunisian film director living in Montreal, Canada.
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. 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.
Tlili compiled a directory of women filmmakers, French: Répertoire des femmes d’images de l'Afrique francophone (1994).
Filmography
- al-Shigara/Héritage ("Heritage"), fiction, 35 mm, 26 min, 1994.
- Infisal/Rupture, documentary, video, 52 min, 1997.
Bibliography
- Répertoire des femmes d’images de l'Afrique francophone. Montréal: Vues d’ Afrique, 1994.[3]
Notes and References
- Book: Hillauer, Rebecca . Encyclopedia of Arab women filmmakers . 2005 . American University in Cairo Press . 978-977-424-943-3 . Rev. and updated . Cairo . 447–448 . ocm64385808.
- Book: Ellerson, Beti . Sisters of the screen : women of Africa on film, video and television . 2000 . Trenton, NJ . Africa World Press . 978-0-86543-712-8.
- Book: George Elliott Clarke . Odysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature . 2017 . University of Toronto Press . Internet Archive . 978-1-4875-1661-1.
