Raja Amari

Quick Facts

Full Name	Raja Amari
Occupation	Film Director
Date Of Birth	Apr 4, 1971(1971-04-04)
Age	53
Birthplace	Tunis
Country	Tunisia
Birth City	Tunis Governorate
Horoscope	Aries

Raja Amari Biography

Raja Amari is one of the most popular and richest Film Director who was born on April 4, 1971 in Tunis, Tunis Governorate, Tunisia. “I’ve always wanted to make a film about belly dancing. I was a professional belly dancer for the Conservatoire de Tunis. I grew up watching Egyptian cinema’s golden age, which is still shown on television today. My mother and me loved Samia Gamal, a well-known belly-dancer, and Farid al-Atrash, a singer. Interview with Bouziane Doudi in Zeitgeist Films, Raja Amari

Olivier Bartlet and Melissa Thackway review the 2015 Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (Festival Panafricain de Cinema de Ouagadougou FESPACO), in “FESPACO 2015. What Next?” They noted that Amari’s film on the Tunisian Spring stood out from the rest of the festival’s ‘Features’ section. The film was “a high-quality television drama about a group young musicians’ divergent response to the turmoil of the Arab Spring.”

“In Tunisian and Arab films, you will see a woman in conflict with society and who’ll fight for it. That was not what I wanted. This was not my topic. Haim Abbass plays Lilia. She finds freedom in the context I call social hypocrisy. In the sense that there is a world that is both night and day, she is part of a society that is hypocritical. You don’t show what you really do, but you know what you do. In the sense that society is like this, she finds a compromise. She adapts to the society. She will do what she wants but it isn’t shown to the rest of the world. -Raja Amari, Indiewire, August 20, 2002

Raja Amari Net Worth

Raja Amari is one of the richest Film Director from Tunisia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Raja Amari 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Raja Amari, a Tunisian script writer and film director, was born on 4 April 1971. Her films Satin Rouge/Red Satin (2002, 2009) and Dowaha/Les Secrets/Buried Secrets (2009, 2009) are her most well-known. Both of these films have won international awards and recognition.

Amari was born in Tunis and trained in dance at Conservatoire de Tunis. She won first prize in dance 1992. After studying Italian at Societa Dante D’Alighieri, Tunis, she continued her studies in French Literature at University of Tunis. Cinecrits was her film magazine, edited by the “Association Tunisienne pour la promotion de la critique cinématographic”. She wrote for it for two years. In 1995, Amari attended FEMIS (L’Institut de Formation et d’Enseignement pour les Metiers de l’Image et du Son) in Paris to study screenwriting. She began working on her film portfolio after graduating in 1998. Satin Rouge, her film, was shown at la Berlinale 2002. Buried Secrets, her film, was selected for official screening at the 2009 Venice International Film Festival.

Amari’s work, particularly Red Satin has been argued to have opened up new avenues and opportunities for the portrayal of Tunisian women in film and society. Author Stacey Weber-Fève asserts that Amari’s portrayal of the protagonist, Lilia, performing housework in the first few scenes of the film, “captures concretely the possibility for (re)appropriating female representation in contemporary North African cinema.” She also asserts that Amari, “levies new debates addressing interpretations of performances of women’s traditional roles and desire for self-expression in contemporary Tunisian society by engaging in a multilayered manner the ideological implications of this traditional social construct of the housewife and her comportment.”

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Raja Ranked on the list of most popular Film Director. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Tunisia. Raja Amari celebrates birthday on April 4 of every year.