Salma Baccar

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Salma Baccar

Salma Baccar ( Arabic سلمى بكار, DMG Salmā Bakkār ; born December 15, 1945 in Tunis ) is a Tunisian film director, producer and politician.

Life

Baccar studied psychology in Lausanne from 1966 to 1968 . She then studied film at the Institut français du cinéma in Paris . She then worked for Tunisian television as an assistant director.

Already in 1966 she made her first short film L'Eveil together with other women in the amateur film club of Hammam-Lif . The film was about the Tunisian women's movement. Fatma 75 was the first Tunisian feature film to be directed by a woman in 1975 and the film was banned for a number of years by the Tunisian Ministry of Information due to numerous provocative feminist scenes. The next feature film that she knew how to make was not made until 1994 with Habiba M'sika , a biography of the singer and dancer Marguerite Habiba Msika . Together with other directors, she runs the production company Intermedia Productions.

Baccar was an important figure in the Tunisian women's movement and gradually got into politics. She became a member of the socialist party El-Massar . After the Arab Spring , she was elected to the Tunisian parliament in October 2011 as a member of El-Massar, later part of the left-wing alliance of the Democratic-Modernist Pole . She became the chairwoman of the Democratic Modernist Pole in 2014, making her the first woman to head a parliamentary alliance in Tunisia.

Awards

  • 2006: Prix ​​du cinéma on the occasion of the Journée nationale de la culture
  • 2015: Ordre de la République

Filmography

  • 1966: L'Eveil
  • 1976: Fatma 75
  • 1985: De la toison au fil d'or
  • 1994: Habiba M'sika
  • 2006: Knochkhach
  • 2017: El Jaida

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Rebecca Hillauer: Encyclopedia of Arab Women Filmmakers . American Univ in Cairo Press, 2015, ISBN 978-977-424-943-3 , pp. 375 .
  2. ↑ Stefanie van de Peer: An encounter with the doyenne of Tunisian film, Selma Baccar . In: The Journal of North African Studies . tape 16 , no. 3 , September 2011, p. 471-482 , doi : 10.1080 / 13629387.2010.527122 .
  3. ↑ LM: Tunisie - ANC: Salma Baccar nouvelle présidente du bloc démocratique. March 25, 2014, accessed on March 22, 2019 (fr-fr).
personal data
SURNAME Baccar, Salma
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Tunisian film director, producer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Tunis