Henda Haouala

Film Critic, Tunisia / France

Henda Haouala is a lecturer in Audiovisual Techniques and Cinema at the Higher Institute of Multimedia Arts at Manouba University in Tunisia. Haouala is a Doctor in Science and Techniques of the Arts. She is the author of the books “Les Tunisiennes font leur cinéma” (Tunisian female directors “act” their own films) published in 2023 and “Aesthetics of the documentary, post-revolution Tunisian cinema” published in 2017. She has participated in collective works published in France and Spain. She was artistic director of the Tozeur International Film Festival (2019) and Manarat (2022) and a member of the artistic committee of the Carthage Film Festival (2015/2016/2020). She has been a jury member in several film festivals in Tunisia and abroad. From 2012 to 2021, Haouala was a film script consultant at the Doha Film Institute.