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In this file photo taken on May 19, 2017 Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania poses uring a photocall for the film 'Beauty and the Dogs' (Aala Kaf Ifrit) at the 70th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France. The director of the first ever Tunisian film to be pipped for an Oscar has hailed the "historical" nomination and urged the North African country's authorities to support homegrown cinema. Kaouther Ben Hania's film "The Man Who Sold His Skin" was put forward for best foreign language film ahead of the April 25 Oscars ceremony in Hollywood. Valery HACHE / AFP.
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TUNIS (AFP).- The director of the first ever Tunisian film to be tipped for an Oscar has hailed the "historical" nomination and urged the North African country's authorities to support homegrown cinema.
Kaouther Ben Hania's film "The Man Who Sold His Skin" was put forward for best foreign language film ahead of the April 25 Oscars ceremony in Hollywood.
"It's a historic event, a first for Tunisia," said Ben Hania via phone from France.
"It's a dream come true."
The film, starring Italian actress Monica Bellucci alongside Syrian Yahya Mahyani and Belgian Koen De Bouw, tells the story of a Syrian refugee who allows a tattoo artist to use his back as a canvas in order to get to Europe.
Ben Hania said she hoped the Oscar nomination would lead to more support for cinema and film-makers in Tunisia.
The French-Tunisian director, 43, was born in the marginalised rural town of Sidi Bouzid which in late 2010 was the site of the events that sparked the Arab Spring uprisings.
She won plaudits at the Cannes Film Festival in 2017 for her feature-length film Beauty and the Dogs, the story of a Tunisian woman who pushes for justice after being raped.
Tunisian cinema, in the doldrums in the early years of the century, was given a boost by the country's 2011 revolution and new-found freedom of speech.
A new generation of screenwriters and directors have since focused their efforts on social and political topics that were long taboo under the dictatorship of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
© Agence France-Presse
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