Mehdi Ben Attia
Mehdi Ben Attia ( Arabic مهدي بن عطية, DMG Mahdī b. ʿAṭṭīya ; born on August 7, 1968 in Tunis ) is a Tunisian film director and screenwriter.
Life
Ben Attia went to school in La Marsa . He studied political science in Paris at the Sorbonne and graduated with a DEA in 1993. After graduating, he started working as a screenwriter in France. He wrote scripts for sitcoms H and Eva Mag on Canal + . He later wrote two screenplays for André Téchiné , Weit weg (2001) and Impardonnables (2011).
In 2009 he released his first feature-length film as a director, Le Fil - The Trace of Our Sehnsucht . The film, produced in France, with Claudia Cardinale , Antonin Stahly and Salim Kechiouche in the cast, is about a gay love story in Tunisia and was banned in Tunisia due to the depiction of homosexuality.
His film Je ne suis pas mort was shown at the 2013 Berlin International Film Festival in the Forum section.
Filmography
- 2000: En face (short film)
- 2009: Le Fil - The trace of our longing ( Le Fil )
- 2012: Je ne suis pas mort
- 2017: L'Amour des hommes
Web links
- Mehdi Ben Attia in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Cinéma. Amours homosexual à la Tunisienne. In: Kapitalis. March 18, 2010, accessed on March 22, 2019 (fr-fr).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ben Attia, Mehdi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | مهدي بن عطية |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Tunisian film director and screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 7th August 1968 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tunis |