Hinde Boujemaa

Hinde Boujemaa is a half-Tunisian, half-Belgian film director.[1]

Life

Boujemaa did a degree in marketing, worked in makeup and special effects, and brought up children before starting her career in filmmaking.[2] In 2006 she studied scriptwriting in a French correspondence course school, and in 2009 wrote a feature film, Under Paradise, which won the Sud Ecriture prize at the Carthage Film Festival.[1] She has said that the Tunisian Revolution was responsible for her own "personal revolution", giving her the inspiration to pursue filmmaking for herself.[2]

Boujemaa's documentary It Was Better Tomorrow follows the life of a young woman in Tunis trying to care for her children after the Tunisian Revolution.[3] Her 2019 feature film Noura's Dream portrays a woman (played by Hend Sabri) who is caught between her husband and her lover.[2] The film premiered at Toronto International Film Festival.[4]

Films
  • C'était mieux demain / It Was Better Tomorrow, 2012
  • And Romeo Married Juliette, 2014
  • Noura's Dream, 2019

References
  1. It Was Better Tomorrow
  2. Ben Croll, 'Noura's Dream' Director Hinde Boujemaa Owes It All to the Arab Spring, Variety, September 24, 2019.
  3. Blandine Stefanson; Sheila Petty (2014). Directory of World Cinema Africa. Intellect Books. p. 89. ISBN 978-1-78320-391-8.
  4. Hassan Abdel Zaher, Arab talents shine at El Gouna Film Festival, The Arab Weekly, 28 September 2019.
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