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- Name: TAIEB LOUHICHI
- English name: TAIEB LOUHICHI
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Description: Taïeb louhichi is a tunisian director born on june 16, 1948 in mareth. after literature and sociology studies which resulted in a doctorate degree, he turned towards cinematography and was trained at the institut de formation cinématographique and vaugirard street school in paris.he shot several short films such as « mon village, un village parmi tant d'autres » (my village, a village among others), winner of the golden tanit at the cinematographic days of carthage in 1972, « le métayer » (the sharecropper), awarded in many festivals in 1976 and « carthage, an 12 » (carthage, year 12). louhichi released his debut feature film, shadow of the earth, in 1982. shadow of the earth won several awards at the 8th panafrican film and television festival of ouagadougou (fespaco), including best screenplay. louhichi's debut was also screened by the international critics' week in cannes. in 1987, he shot « goree, island of grandfather » followed in 1989 by « layla, my reason » which was selected for official competition at the venice film festival of 1991 and received the audience award at the first african film festival in milan.he was also named chevalier de l'ordre des arts et des lettres in france.louhichi suffered serious injuries in a 2006 car accident in the united arab emirates while visiting the country to chair the jury of an emirati film festival.in 2011, he filmed the documentary les gens de l'étincelle (people of the spark) on the tunisian revolution. he released l'enfant du soleil (the child of the sun) in 2013. his last feature film was 2017's la rumeur de l'eau (water rumours).in 2020, his hometown mareth is organizing the first edition of the taïeb louhichi film festival.honors and awards:
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