Tunisia is the guest of honor at the second edition of the Baghdad Film Festival, which kicks off today, Monday, September 15, and continues until the 21st of the same month, under the slogan “Baghdad, Capital of Arab Tourism 2025.”
The festival will open with the screening of a documentary honoring the late Tunisian producer and film critic Nejib Ayed.
The opening program also includes a screening of The Silences of the Palaces by the late Tunisian director Moufida Tlatli, produced in 1994 and considered a landmark in Arab cinema.
Tunisia is participating in most of this edition’s competitions, including the feature film competition, which will screen the films Burj Al-Rumi by Moncef Dhouib and Bird of Paradise by Mourad Ben Cheikh, along with the Tunisian-Moroccan joint film Backstage, directed by Afef Ben Mahmoud and Khalil Benkirane.
