Carthage Film Festival

The Carthage Film Festival is a biannual October film festival hosted by the government of Tunisia.

The festival was created in 1966 by the Tunisian Minister of Culture to showcase films from the Maghreb, Africa, and the Middle East. In order to be eligible for competition, a film must have a director of African or Middle Eastern nationality, and have been produced at least two years before entry.

Its grand prize is the "Tanit d'or", or "Golden Tanit," named for the lunar goddess of ancient Carthage; the award is in the shape of her symbol, a trapezium sumrounted by a horizontal line and a circle.

Previous winners of the Tanit d'or include:

*1992: "La nuit" (Mohamed Malas, Syria)
*1994: "Les silences du palais" (Arabic: صمت القصور ) (Moufida Tlatli, Tunisia)
*1996: "Salut cousin" (Merzak Allouache, Algeria)
*1998: "Vivre au paradis" (Bourlem Guerdjou, Algeria)
*2000: "Dolé" (Imunga Ivanga, Gabon)
*2002: "Le prix du pardon" (Mansour Sora Wade, Senegal)
*2004: "A Casablanca, les anges ne volent pas" (Mohamed Asli, Morocco)
*2006: "Making-Off "(Arabic: آخر فيلم ) (Nouri Bouzid, Tunisia)

External links

* [http://www.jccarthage.org/ Carthage Film Festival official site (French language)]