The Carthage Film Festival celebrated its 50th anniversary.
The dean of African and Arab festivals is the biggest Tunisian cultural event. Even if it has suffered some setbacks, it remains an essential platform for African and Arab cinematographies.

The 2017 session promises to promote African and Arabic cinematographies and films, strengthening competitions, re-establishing the competition for documentary films, doubling prices, multiplying focus on innovative experiences. It also works to network the operators of the sector with a view to being a real force of proposal and to organize innovative debates and useful to the profession and cinema lovers.

Currently, a H 24 board team on the latest details. Here and there some information is missing while waiting for the official program.

In the meantime remember that:

A special program will be dedicated to Algeria as a guest of honor. Out of competition, 12 Algerian films are on the program between classical and recent productions, with in opening, the last feature film of Mohamed Lakdhar Hamina; “Twilight of the Shadows”. Gastronomic and artistic events are also on the program of which a concert of the # Symphony Orchestra of the Opéra of Algiers devoted to the music of films, with as guest-star, the Tunisian composer #Amine Bouhafa, César of the best original music 2015 for Timbuktu.


The film “writting on snow” that will open the JCC is of Palestinian director Rashid Masharawi and a Tunisian-Palestinian-Egyptian co-production. Several footage of the film have been filmed in the  region of Tabarka in May 2016. The shooting was supported by the Tunisian National Tourist Board (ONTT).

The film will be screened in world premiere on the occasion of the 2017 JCC scheduled for November 04-11, 2017 and directed by Nejib Ayed.

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