Omar Khlifi

Omar Khlifi was born in March 1934 in Soliman, south of Tunis. Self-taught, he learned filmmaking in the amateur filmmakers' movement, where he shot his first short films in 1961, then in 1966 directed the first entirely Tunisian fiction feature film, followed by others on the liberation struggle. He headed the film department at the Ministry of Cultural Affairs, published in 1970 a history of Tunisian cinema since 1896, then books of political history. Made Grand Officer of the Order of Cultural Merit in 2016, he died on 30 December 2017.

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• CinemaصراخOmar Khlifi · 1972Cinema