The filmmaker and scriptwriter Kaouther Ben Hania joins the international jury
After studying commerce, Kaouther Ben Hania, also member of the Tunisian Federation of Amateur Filmmakers, spent the years 2002 to 2004 at the School of Arts and Cinema (EDAC) where she made three student films, including La brèche (The Breach), a short that earned several awards
In 2003, she participated in the Aristoteles Workshop for feature film writing which is financed by Euromed
She pursued documentary studies at La Fémis’ summer school in 2004 before becoming a regular student there in Screenwriting next year.
In 2006, she made her first professional short film, Moi, ma sœur et la chose (Me, My Sister and the Thing), then joined the founding team of Al Jazeera Documentaries, where she worker until 2007.
(Moi, ma soeur et la chose – 2005)
In 2008 she earned a masters degree from the University of Paris 3 (New Sorbonne) with a thesis entitled, “The ‘documenteur’: Fiction With or Against Documentaries”.
Two years later, she made a seventy-five-minute documentary, Les Imams vont à l’école (The Imams Are Going to School), which met with great success on the Festival circuit, official competition IDFA in Amsterdam.
But she did not stop here, in 2011 she made 120 episodes of a 3D children’s television series that was broadcast on JeemTV (formerly the Al Jazeera Children’s Channel)
In 2014, her short film Peau de colle won the Golden Tanit Best Short Film JCC in Carthage. The same year she made her first feature film Le Challat de Tunis (The Blade of Tunis) itself awarded by the Golden Bayard in Namur.
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