Mehdi Hmili

Known for

Directing

Birthplace

Tunis, Tunisia

Biography

Mehdi Hmili is a Tunisian writer and filmmaker. He studied cinema in Tunisia before graduating from the Paris Film School. While in France, he directed his short trilogy about love and exile — X-MOMENT (2009), LI-LA (2011), and THE NIGHT OF BADR (2012).

His first feature-length film, THALA MON AMOUR (2016), was selected for several worldwide film festivals like the Torino and Carthage film festivals and won several prizes.

Hmili is part of a new wave of young Tunisian filmmakers and is a major figure in the current Tunisian cinematographic landscape.

He is also a popular poet in Tunisia, known for his poems against the regime of Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, and founded Yol Film House in Tunis...