Mahmoud Ben Mahmoud

Mahmoud Ben Mahmoud is a Tunisian film writer and producer. He was born in 1947 in Tunis, Tunisia, to a family of Turkish origin who had settled in Tunisia in 1710. His father was a theologian and amateur artist and writer, which, to an extent, influenced the personality of the young Mahmoud. He studied at the I.N.S.A.S. Belgian school of cinema where he completed his graduation in field of filming. Later, he studied art history, archaeology and journalism at the Free University of Brussels (ULB). These multidisciplinary studies gave him a solid training to face the field of cinema. He first tried to make it as a film writer by participating in the writing of two films: The Son of Amir Is Dead (1975) of Jean-Jacques Andrien and The Massacre of Kafr Kassem (1975) of Borhane Alaouié. Soon after, Mahmoud wrote his first feature film Traversées (1982). He Co-Wrote and Co-Directed his second feature film, Poussière de Diamant (1991) with Fadhel Jaïbi, The Film was selected for Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival. Mahmoud has also released a number of documentary films between 1992 and 2006. Meanwhile, he has still continued to make films that have marked his film career success, such as The Tanit d'Or Best Fiction Feature Film Award winner Fatwa (2018)