Selma Baccar

Selma Baccar or Salma Baccar (born 1945) is a Tunisian documentary film director and politician, "the first woman in Tunisia to make her own films".^[1]^[2]

Life

Selma Baccar was born on 15 December 1945 in Tunis. Her family moved to Hammam-Lif when she was seven year old.^[1] After college, she studied psychology from 1966 to 1968 in Lausanne and film studies until 1970 in Paris.^[3]

Baccar's 1976 film Fatma 75, "a feminist essay film about women's roles in Tunisia",^[4] was the first full-length feature film directed by a woman. Habiba M’sika (1994) was a biography of the entertainment artist Marguerite Habiba Msika.^[3] Flowers of Oblivion told the story of Zakia, an opium addict in a psychiatric hospital in Vichy-ruled Tunisia in the 1940s.^[2]

In October 2011 Baccar was elected to the National Constituency Assembly.^[5]

Filmography

Films

Fatma 75, 1976
Habiba M’sika/La Danse du feu/The Dance of Fire, 1994
Farhat Amor, 2002
Knochkhach/La Fleur de l'oubli/The Flower of Oblivion, 2005

Television series

Chaara el hob, 2005
Chaâbane fi Romdhane, 2005
Nouassi Wâateb, 2006
Assrar âailya, 2006
Kamanja Salama, 2007
Farhat Amor / Joie d'une vie, 2002
Femmes dans notre mémoire, 1997
Le Secret des métiers, 1996

References

1 2 Stefanie van de Peer, 'An encounter with the doyenne of Tunisian film, Selma Baccar', The Journal of North African Studies, Vol. 16. No. 3, September 2011, pp.471-82.
1 2 Florence Martin (2011). "Selma Baccar's Transvergent Spectatorship: Flower of Oblivion (Tunisia, 2006)". Screens and Veils: Maghrebi Women's Cinema. Indiana University Press. pp. 183–209. ISBN 0-253-00565-5.
1 2 Rebecca Hillauer (2005). Encyclopedia of Arab Women Filmmakers. American Univ in Cairo Press. pp. 375–. ISBN 978-977-424-943-3.
↑ Stefanie Van de Peer (2017). "Chapter 3. Selma Baccar: Non-fiction in Tunisisa, the land of fictions". Negotiating Dissidence: The Pioneering Women of Arab Documentary. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-1-4744-2338-0.
↑ Lilia Labidi (2016). "Political, aesthetic, and ethical positions of Tunisian women artists, 2011-2013". In Andrea Khalil. Gender, Women and the Arab Spring. Routledge. p. 38. ISBN 978-1-317-59916-6.

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[VanDePeer-1] 1 2 Stefanie van de Peer, 'An encounter with the doyenne of Tunisian film, Selma Baccar', The Journal of North African Studies, Vol. 16. No. 3, September 2011, pp.471-82.

[Martin2011-2] 1 2 Florence Martin (2011). "Selma Baccar's Transvergent Spectatorship: Flower of Oblivion (Tunisia, 2006)". Screens and Veils: Maghrebi Women's Cinema. Indiana University Press. pp. 183–209. ISBN 0-253-00565-5.

[Hillauer2005-3] 1 2 Rebecca Hillauer (2005). Encyclopedia of Arab Women Filmmakers. American Univ in Cairo Press. pp. 375–. ISBN 978-977-424-943-3.

[Peer2017-4] Stefanie Van de Peer (2017). "Chapter 3. Selma Baccar: Non-fiction in Tunisisa, the land of fictions". Negotiating Dissidence: The Pioneering Women of Arab Documentary. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-1-4744-2338-0.

[Khalil2016-5] Lilia Labidi (2016). "Political, aesthetic, and ethical positions of Tunisian women artists, 2011-2013". In Andrea Khalil. Gender, Women and the Arab Spring. Routledge. p. 38. ISBN 978-1-317-59916-6.