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Gabes, the oasis and the factory ( Tunisia 1983 )

Color: Doc., 26 mn

Direction: Taïeb Louhichi

Synopsis

The city of Gabes, one of the most beautiful oases of southern Tunisia, wants to be as green as it was and not having to choose between the oasis and the factory. The film also traces the long history of the city, its economic and human resources are threatened by industrial pollution.

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.