Mehdi Hmili

Born in Tunis in 1984, Mehdi Hmili studied cinema in Paris and gained recognition with a trilogy of black-and-white short films exploring love and exile (X-Moment, Li-La, The Night of Badr). In 2016, he directed his first fiction feature film, Thala My Love. In 2019, he participated in La Fabrique Cinéma at the Cannes Film Festival, with his documentary Fouledh. His second feature film, Streams, won the Horizons of Arab Cinema Award at the Cairo International Film Festival in 2021.