The Most Famous
FILM DIRECTORS from Tunisia
This page contains a list of the greatest Tunisian Film Directors. The pantheon dataset contains 1,581 Film Directors, 1 of which were born in Tunisia. This makes Tunisia the birth place of the 74th most number of Film Directors behind Mozambique and Mali.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Tunisian Film Directors of all time. This list of famous Tunisian Film Directors is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Moufida Tlatli (1947 - 2021)
With an HPI of 46.29, Moufida Tlatli is the most famous Tunisian Film Director. Her biography has been translated into 16 different languages on wikipedia.
Moufida Tlatli (Tunisian Arabic: مفيدة التلاتلي; 4 August 1947 – 7 February 2021) was a Tunisian film director, screenwriter, and editor. She is best known for her breakthrough film The Silences of the Palace, which won several international awards and was praised by critics. She made two more well received movies,The Season of Men and Nadia and Sarra.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as film directors born between 1947 and 1947. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased film directors include Moufida Tlatli. As of April 2022, 1 new film directors have been added to Pantheon including Moufida Tlatli.
