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Moufida Tlatli 2010 at the Alexandria Film Festival
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Your women are brave and proud, they are traditional, they rebel.
And there is always something of the story of their director in them: Moufida Tlatli.
The Tunisian filmmaker died on Sunday at the age of 73.
The Tunisian Ministry of Culture confirmed corresponding media reports on Monday.
Tlatli, born in 1947, received a scholarship for the French film school IDHEC in Paris in the 1960s.
"It was customary there for the men to focus on directing, sound engineering or some other technical area, while the women concentrated more on script or editing," she once said of this time.
And so she first worked as an editor, was involved in many successful films in North African auteur cinema, before being the first Arab woman to direct her own feature film in 1994.
»Palace of Silence« is dedicated to questions of gender, class and sexuality in the Arab world based on the fate of women in a prince's palace in the 1950s and 1960s.
The drama, which grew out of her mother's biographical thoughts, won awards at the Toronto, Chicago and London festivals.
In Cannes it received the Palme d'Or.
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Scene Tlatli's directorial debut »Palace of Silence«
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Tlatli portrayed three generations of women in her second film "Time of Men, Time of Women" (2000).
The original title refers to the one month of the year in which the men on the island of Djerba return from work on mainland Tunisia to their wives and families - the so-called season of the men, which tells the story of the consequences for mothers , Wives, sisters and daughters.
Tlatli also used her own biography for this drama.
»I make autobiographical films, I talk about myself, my daughter, my mother, my grandmother.
We have reoriented ourselves between modernism and tradition, «she told the Evangelical Press Service before the film was released in Germany.
"I prefer people who combine both tradition and revolt," she said.
She was celebrated and criticized for her commitment to the rights of women in the Arab world of men.
In 2004 Tlatli released her last film, »Rivalinnen«, a portrait of a woman in the menopause, in which she is plagued by physical and psychological problems.
After the revolution in her homeland, the Arab Spring, she was appointed Minister of Culture in the interim government of Mohamed Ghannouchi II, which was set up in January 2011.
However, the government was replaced in March of the same year.
The Aswan International Women's Film Festival announced that it will dedicate its fifth edition to the late pioneer.
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