Najwa Tlili is a Tunisian film director living in Montreal, Canada.
Biography Tlili was born in southwestern Tunisia. She studied at the Sorbonne in Paris. She moved to Montreal in 1991.
Her first film, Heritage (1994), is about a woman, Selma, who returns to her home in Tunisia but feels disconnected from her cultural background. Tlili describes it as "a voyage deep in my memory, a memory of the footprints that I left in Tunisia. I travelled in these tracks." Rupture (1997) is a documentary about domestic violence focusing on two Tunisian women in Canada.
Tlili compiled a directory of women filmmakers, (1994).
Filmography
al-Shigara/Héritage ("Heritage"), fiction, 35 mm, 26 min, 1994. Infisal/Rupture, documentary, video, 52 min, 1997.
Bibliography
Répertoire des femmes d’images de l'Afrique francophone. Montréal: Vues d’ Afrique, 1994.
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