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Tribute to Tayeb Louhichi

The shadow of the earth ( Tunisia 1982 )

Color: Fiction, color, 85’

Direction: Taïeb Louhichi

Screenplay: Taïeb Louhichi

Director of Photography: Ramon Suarez

Sound: Faouzi Thabet

Music: Egisto Macchi

Editing: Moufida Tlatli

Production: Tanit,Satpec , Les films Molière

Synopsis

The last members of an isolated community live in a camp located on a border. The patriarch occupies one of the four tents. His nephews, his son and their families live in the other three. Wheat stocks are depleted gradually and the herd, suffering from an unknown disease withers... The sons go north, to the army and abroad. Only the patriarch’s wife and his son remain in the camp, but the latter must also go to the capital where the coffin of her dead husband will come from abroad.

Réalisateur

Taïeb Louhichi studied Cinema in Paris. He also holds a doctorate in humanities and sociology. He has directed several short films, including My Village, a village among many others, Tanit gold JCC 1972, The Metayer, Carthage year 12. In 1982, he wrote and directed his first feature film, Shadow of the earth, selected and awarded at the Critics’ Week at Cannes and in many international festivals. His career grows, successively by Goree The Island of the grandfather (1987), Special Jury Prize in Algiers, Layla, my reason (Mejnoun Layla), 1989, selected in official competition at the Venice Film Festival and awarded in Milan and Ouagadougou, Marriage of a moon, awarded in Bari, Montreal, Johannesburg and the dance of the wind. In 2006, Taieb Louhichi was victim of a car accident in Dubai when he was there to preside over a film festival. He loses the use of his limbs. But the filmmaker is the kind of people who, whatever obstacles they face, still keep the desire to move forward, leaving a permanent mark of their passage. The man who is named "the most African Tunisian filmmakers” or also “the filmmaker of the desert” in reference to his birth in 1948 to Mareth (south of Tunisia) and the way he films the Sahara, continues his path in developing projects, writing scenarios and maybe even a book. He shoots a documentary, People of the spark, in 2011. Currently he just completed The Children of the Sun, a fictional feature.