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Khaled Ghorbal

Khaled Ghorbal

Tunisian film director

Khaled Ghorbal (born 1950 in Sfax) is a Tunisian filmmaker and screenwriter.[1][2][3]

Biography and career

Ghorbal studied at the Dramatic Art Center of Tunis. He arrived in France in 1970 to complete his theatrical training, at the International University of Theatre in Paris, at the University of Paris VIII and then at the Jacques Lecoq Mime School Mouvement Théâtre.[4][5] He launched his career as an actor, then as a theater director. For nearly ten years, he programmed and directed two art house theaters in the Paris region.[6][7]

In 1996, he directed El Mokhtar (The Chosen One), his first short fiction film, addressing the issue of fundamentalism and the brainwashing of youth. The film was selected in many international festivals. In 1999 he left for Tunisia to shoot Fatma, his first feature film.[8] The film premiered at Cannes and won a number of prizes, notably at the FESPACO.[9][10]

Filmography

As director

References

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    "Personnes | Africultures : Ghorbal Khaled". Africultures (in French). Retrieved 2021-11-27.
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    Intercontinent, Médias France (2007-05-01). Cinémas africains d'aujourd'hui (in French). KARTHALA Editions. ISBN 978-2-8111-4186-8.
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    Armes, Roy (2005). Postcolonial Images: Studies in North African Film. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-21744-8.
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    Africa Film & TV Magazine. Z Productions. 2001.
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    métrage, Sauve qui peut le court; d'Images, Traces. Catalogue Clermont FilmFest97 (in French). Sauve qui peut le court métrage.
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    Videau, André (2002). "Fatma. Film tunisien de Khaled Ghorbal". Hommes & Migrations. 1237 (1): 145–146.
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    Pallister, Janis L.; Hottell, Ruth A.; Hottell, Ruth A. (2005). Francophone Women Film Directors: A Guide. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. ISBN 978-0-8386-4046-3.
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    Variety International Film Guide. Andre Deutsch. 2003.
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    "Un si beau voyage". LEFIGARO (in French). 2009-03-14. Retrieved 2021-11-27.
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    "Khaled Ghorbal". en.unifrance.org. Retrieved 2021-11-27.
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    Gugler, Josef (2011-01-15). Film in the Middle East and North Africa: Creative Dissidence. University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-72327-6.
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