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The appearance of the Tunisian actor and dancer Ahmed Taya, yesterday Friday, during the opening of the Carthage Film Festival in the thirty-first session, wearing women’s clothing, sparked controversy on the social network, because he dressed his clothes and placed a “ “ gold patch ” on her face, while she carried a purse in her hand. A female hand, and one of the sarcastic comments said: “We are afraid, we say, my Lord, to guide him, to walk with a veil.”
On Friday night, Tunisia opened the thirty-first session of the Carthage Film Days, after a great controversy over the establishment of the festival in light of the government’s ban on public activities and the imposition of a night curfew due to the Corona pandemic.
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The new edition will show more than 120 films in 16 theaters, as well as prisons and a car cinema in the hostel of the City of Culture, but the festival management decided to cancel the competition for the Golden Tanit award and settled for awarding prizes for support new films in the filming and preparation process.
For his part, Youssef bin Ibrahim, Chief of Staff of the Minister of Culture, said in the opening speech: “The organization of the 31st session of the Carthage Film Days, despite the weight of the unprecedented health crisis related to the pandemic de Corona and despite its dire social and economic effects, it translates our attachment to life and expresses our innate desire for success and nurturing. The challenge is the continuation of this pioneering Arab-African festival. “
At the opening, the festival honored the name of Shazly al-Qalibi (1925-2020), Tunisian Prime Minister of Culture, as well as Egyptian actor Abdel Aziz Makhion. And the associations and festivals that were celebrated in Egypt. “
And he added: “This is because this festival is an ancient festival, which has its origin and originality, and when the honor comes from the Carthage film era, there are colleagues and brothers on the move who know how to read the map of creativity. in the Arab world, and distinguish between true art and false art that falsifies and deceives, so I am very happy. With this honor “and out of the ordinary by showing a fictional film at the opening, the festival presented, on Friday night, six short films from the memory of Tunisian cinema.
