Khaled Ghorbal
Khaled Ghorbal (born 1950 in Sfax) is a Tunisian filmmaker and screenwriter.
Khaled Ghorbal
- Name
- Khaled Ghorbal
- Born
- 1950
- Birthplace
- Sfax
- Occupation
- Filmmaker and screenwriter
- Nationality
- French protectorate of Tunisia · Tunisia
- Education
- Paris 8 University · L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq
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Khaled Ghorbal (born 1950 in Sfax) is a Tunisian filmmaker and screenwriter.
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Khaled Ghorbal (born 1950) is a film director and screenwriter, a national of the French protectorate of Tunisia and Tunisia. The film director was born in Sfax. Khaled Ghorbal was educated at L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq and Paris 8 University.
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• Name — Khaled Ghorbal • Born — 1950 • Birthplace — Sfax • Citizenship — Tunisia • Occupation — Filmmaker and screenwriter
Biography and career
Biography and career
Ghorbal studied at the Dramatic Art Center of Tunis. He arrived in France in 1970 to complete his theatrical training, at the International University of Theatre in Paris, at the University of Paris VIII and then at the Jacques Lecoq Mime School Mouvement Théâtre. He launched his career as an actor, then as a theater director. For nearly ten years, he programmed and directed two art house theaters in the Paris region. In 1996, he directed El Mokhtar (The Chosen One), his first short fiction film, addressing the issue of fundamentalism and the brainwashing of youth. The film was selected in many international festivals. In 1999 he left for Tunisia to shoot Fatma, his first feature film. The film premiered at Cannes and won a number of prizes, notably at the FESPACO.
As director
As director
• 1996: El Mokhtar(The Chosen One) • 2001: Fatma • 2008: Un si beau voyage • 2015: Zaafrane (Saffron)
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- 2.Africiné - Khaled Ghorbal. Africiné.
- 3.Khaled Ghorbal. MUBI.
- 4.Fatma. PCMMO - Panorama des Cinémas du Maghreb et du Moyen-Orient. 2013-11-13.
- 5.Khaled Ghorbal Archives. Directors' Fortnight.
- 6.Khaled Ghorbal. www.le-musee-prive.com.
- 7.Khaled Ghorbal. Evene.fr.
- 8.Intercontinent, Médias France. Cinémas africains d'aujourd'hui. KARTHALA Editions. 2007-05-01. 978-2-8111-4186-8.
- 9.Armes, Roy. Postcolonial Images: Studies in North African Film. Indiana University Press. 2005. 978-0-253-21744-8.
- 10.Z Productions. Africa Film & TV Magazine. 2001.
- 11.métrage, Sauve qui peut le court. Catalogue Clermont FilmFest97. Sauve qui peut le court métrage.
- 12.Videau, André. Fatma. Film tunisien de Khaled Ghorbal. Hommes & Migrations. 1237. 1. 145–146. 2002.
- 13.Pallister, Janis L. Francophone Women Film Directors: A Guide. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. 2005. 978-0-8386-4046-3.
- 14.Andre Deutsch. Variety International Film Guide. 2003.
- 15.Un si beau voyage. LEFIGARO. 2009-03-14.
- 16.Khaled Ghorbal. en.unifrance.org.
- 17.Gugler, Josef. Film in the Middle East and North Africa: Creative Dissidence. University of Texas Press. 2011-01-15. 978-0-292-72327-6.
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