Nouri Bouzid
Nouri Bouzid (born 1945) is a Tunisian film director and screenwriter. He has directed seven films between 1986 and 2006. His film Man of Ashes was screened in the Un Certain Regard section the 1986 Cannes Film Festival.
Nouri Bouzid

Meriem_Mach · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Name
- Nouri Bouzid
- Born
- 1945
- Birthplace
- Sfax, Tunisia
- Known for
- Man of Ashes,Golden Horseshoes,Bezness,Un été à La Goulette,Bent Familia,The Season of Men
- Occupation
- Film director Screenwriter
- Awards
- Ibn Rushd Prize for Freedom of Thought
- Nationality
- French protectorate of Tunisia and Tunisia.
- Honours
- Knight of the Legion of Honour, Ibn Rushd Prize for Freedom of Thought and Officer of Arts and Letters.
- Languages
- Arabic.
Reference Check
Propose documentary evidence for Nouri Bouzid. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.
Sign in to contribute
World of VALÉORINE
Documentary connections
Only confirmed graph relationships appear here. Images are shown only when their identity and reuse rights both pass the documentary gate.
Documentary evidence
Documentary basis
Authority files
wikidata · Q1611103 · wikipedia · Nouri Bouzid
VALÉORINE Encyclopedia
The documentary record
Statements marked “Documentary record” are set in the article beside the passage they confirm. Each is read from the authority records of the institutions named here; select “Prove” to see the record it was read from, where in that record, and when.
Institutions cited
Bibliothèque nationale de France · Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
Complete reading chain (JSON)In this article
Biography
Biography
Three years later, his film Golden Horseshoes was screened in the same section at the 1989 festival. Bouzid was featured in a 2009 documentary film about the experience of cinema in different cultures called Cinema Is Everywhere.
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Nouri Bouzid • Born — 1945 • Birthplace — Sfax, Tunisia • Citizenship — Tunisian • Known for — Man of Ashes,Golden Horseshoes,Bezness,Un été à La Goulette,Bent Familia,The Season of Men • Occupation — Film director Screenwriter • Years Active — 1986 - 2006 • Awards — Ibn Rushd Prize for Freedom of Thought
Documentary record
Nouri Bouzid (born 1945) is described as a film director, actor, screenwriter, director and writer in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. The birth of Nouri Bouzid is recorded in 1945 in Sfax.
Selected filmography
Selected filmography
• Man of Ashes (1986) • Golden Horseshoes (1989) • Bezness (1992) • The Silences of the Palace (1994 - writer) • A Summer in La Goulette (1996 - writer) • Bent Familia (1997) • The Season of Men (2000 - writer) • Making Of (2006)
Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
The full dated record · 1 entries
1945
Nouri Bouzid born at Sfax.
Awards
• The Ibn Rushd Prize for Freedom of Thought for the year 2007 in Berlin. • Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters (France, 2009) • Knight of the Legion of Honour (France, 2013) • Special Human Rights Award (Venice Film Festival, 2019)
Text attribution
Licensing
Text attribution
Part of the biographical narrative on this page reuses licensed material. Its origin, revision and licence are recorded here.
The biographical narrative on this page is based on the Wikipedia article Nouri Bouzid, revision 1369720144 (EN edition), by its contributors. VALÉORINE has edited that text and built its own documentary record around it. The reused material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, and this page's reuse of it is offered under the same licence. Everything else on this page — the chronology, the holdings, the evidence, the plates and the connections — is VALÉORINE's own record. Sources and licences.
Notes from the source article
Cited by Wikipedia
Notes from the source article
These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.Biografie Nouri Bouzid (fr). – L'encyclopédie du cinéma und weiter dazu Biografie Nouri Bouzid. – Filme aus Afrika, abgerufen am 18. September 2019
- 2.Autor: I.B. Le cinéaste tunisien Nouri Bouzid publie un livre de poésie (fr). – In: Kapitalis, 2. Mai 2014, und weiter dazu Les Silences du palais - Scénario du film (French Edition) (fr). – Kissly, abgerufen am 18. September 2019
- 3.Zayer Qdim (Vieux visiteur) – (fr). – Littératures du Maghreb, abgerufen am 18. September 2019
- 4.Bezness - Das Geschäft mit der Sehnsucht. – filmportal.de, abgerufen am 18. September 2019
- 5.Autor: Hans-Jörg Rother Puppen aus Ton. – In: EZEF, Juni 2005, abgerufen am 18. September 2019
- 6.– Filmgalerie 451.
- 7.Autor: Hamza Marzouk JCC 2019 : « Les Epouvantails » de Nouri Bouzid en ouverture (fr). – In: L’Economiste Maghrebin, 7. September 2019, abgerufen am 18. September 2019
- 8.Autor: Kaleem Aftab Review: The Scarecrows (en). – In: Cineuropa, 9. September 2019, abgerufen am 18. September 2019
- 9.Silent Running (fr). – linternaute.fr, abgerufen am 18. September 2019
- 10.Filmografie Leyla Bouzid. – IMDb, abgerufen am 18. September 2019
- 11.Zeit der Männer, Zeit der Frauen. – Filmstarts, abgerufen am 18. September 2019
- 12.Filmkunst als Mittel gegen soziale Heuchelei. – Ibn Rushd Fund for Freedom of Thought, abgerufen am 18. September 2019
- 13.Autor: Horst Schäfer Der Mann aus Asche. – In: Kinder Jugendfilm Korrespondenz, Ausgabe 61-1/1995, abgerufen am 18. September 2019
- 14.Bis zu den äußersten Grenzen gehen. – Taz, 29. November 1995, abgerufen am 18. September 2019
- 15.„Bezness“-Fälle: Wie interkulturelle Paare unter Liebesbetrügern leiden. – Focus Online, 21. Juli 2018, abgerufen am 19. September 2019
- 16.Fragments d'une Tunisie contemporaine: La guerre du Golfe... et après ? (fr). – MuCEM, abgerufen am 19. September 2019
- 17.Autor: Synth LBC Nouri Bouzid, n'admettra pas un régime islamiste (fr). – In: Turess: via Tekiano, 13. Mai 2011 und weiter dazu Autor: Ahmed Sahraoui Nouri Bouzid porte plainte contre Psycho M et Ennahdha (fr). – In: Tunisie Numerique, 5. Mai 2011, abgerufen am 19. September 2019
References
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
reference work
Secondary witnessreference work
Secondary witness
People, houses and institutions
Knowledge graph
People, houses and institutions
Teachers, collaborators, publishers and institutions recorded against this person, each on a stated basis.
Citizenship
1- TunisiaPlace
Established from a fact already recorded on a verified source.
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 14 August 2026.
Elsewhere in Books
39,529 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
- Notker the StammererAuthor
- Noto SoerotoAuthor
- Noureddine AbaAuthor
- Nouri al-JarrahAuthor
- Nouvelle VagueAuthor
- NovalisAuthor
- NovatianAuthor
- Novica TadićAuthor
Best supported in this field
For owners
Own a work by Nouri Bouzid?
A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.