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Filmmaker · Tunisia

Nouri Bouzid

Nouri Bouzid was born in 1945 in Sfax. He studied cinema at the Institut national supérieur des arts du spectacle in Brussels from 1968 to 1972, then worked for Tunisian television. Arrested in 1973 for belonging to a socialist study and action group, he remained in prison until 1979. Once released, he was an assistant director on Tunisian and foreign shoots, including a film by Spielberg, and wrote screenplays for other filmmakers. In 1994 he founded a school of arts and cinema in Tunis, where he teaches, and in 2007 he received the Ibn Rushd Prize for Freedom of Thought.

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