Free, she lived

Free, she wrote, filmed, talked …

kalt is a free woman.

Kalthoum Bornaz, called Kalthoum Etoile on his Facebook profile is no more.

She died in a terrible  accident in this early autumn 2016. A period she would have named “kweyel Rumman” naps of Grenadines. A time when she loved profiting of Hammamet in her second home back season.

Born August 14, 1945, Kalthoum Bornaz was born in Tunis in a middle class family and spent a golden childhood at the Pasha Street with an exceptional mom; the famous MMe Amira, Headmistress of the school of For Young Girls – El Pacha street.

Kalthoum Bornaz  studied literature at the University of Tunis and continued studying on cinema at the Institute for Advanced Film Studies (IDHEC). She belonged to the first generation of women filmmakers in Tunisia which Moufida Tlatli, Selma Baccar, etc.

The Filmmaker fought hard at a time for the rescue of the Municipal Theater of Tunis, threatened at the time by a real estate project which provided its destruction.

Kalthoum Bornaz worked on several national and international films like Rachid Ferchiou, Tarak Ben Ammar, Nacer Khemir, Claude Chabrol, Franco Zeffirelli and Serge Moati. She participated in the following films and series: Friday or wildlife Gerard Vergez, Pirates Roman Polanski’s The Barbarian Mireille Darc, The Magicians of Claude Chabrol, the miniseries Jesus of Nazareth by Franco Zeffirelli and desert buoy to Nacer Khemir.

Kalthoum Bornaz realized:

  •  1986 Fertile Colours (c-m – 15 min 35mm.)
  •  1988 Three Characters in a Quest Theatre (m-m. – 42 min 35mm)
  •  1992 Looking Gull (c-m – 18 min -. 35 mm)
  •  1996 Wedding Night in Tunis (c-m – 27 min. – Video) Arte TV.
  •  1998 Keswa – Wire Lost (L-m – 96 min -. 35 mm)
  • 2000 Forest El Medfoun (c-m – 10 min – 35mm)
  •  2008 The other half of the sky (l-m – 93 min – 35mm)

For more information on her films:

http://www.africultures.com/php/index.php?nav=film&no=4354

http://www.africultures.com/php/index.php?nav=film&no=3843

http://www.africultures.com/php/index.php?nav=film&no=5940

Amel DJAIT

 

 

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