Mehdi Ben Attia

Mehdi Ben Attia is a Tunisian film director, screenwriter and actor.

Biography

Born at Tunis in 1968, Ben Attia studied at Lycée Gustave Flaubert in La Marsa, Tunisia, and in 1993 obtained a French Diplôme d'études approfondies advanced degree in sociology at Sorbonne University in Paris. He then turned to screenwriting, often in collaboration, and direction of films and television series for French channels, for instance H (for Canal Plus), Sami (three episodes, M6), and Groupe Flag (two episodes, France 2). His first feature film Le Fil (The String, a homosexual love story) starred Claudia Cardinale and Salim Kechiouche. He also acted in four films.

Filmography

Ben Attia's films include:

Awards

Ben Attia's films obtained two prizes and three nominations, such as:

References

External links

Videos

• . Video duration 1m 28s. Uploader SansLesNuages / LesBAdeVivaLaCinema, 2013.
• . Video duration 32s. Teaser trailer. Uploader Eurochannel, 2014.
• . Video duration 19m 58s. Uploader: Ciné Zooms 2 : Gérard Chargé, 2018. Interview with Ben Attia and actress Hafisa Herzi on their 2017 film Of Skin and Men. French spoken.
• . Video duration 1m 16s. Uploader South Social Film Festival, 2020. Ben Attia explains his work in English.