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Refka Ben Ali


Refka Ben Ali

Refka Ben Ali

Biography

The tunisian filmmaker, actress and journalist studied at Florent, an acting school in Paris, as well as she passed her exams in film direction at Paris University and attended tutorials in editing and picture journalisme at CIFAP (Centre International de Fromation Audiovisuelle et de Production). As actress she developed several theatre courses for schools in Paris. She produced her own shortfilms e.g. Skinose in 2009 which was presented at the Berlin Film Festival. Currently she is working as a reporter for Radio France International (rfi) and presents a radio show for Radio Monte Carlo Doualiya. In December 2010 she was amongst the demonstrators before the president’s flight to be with her family and her friends who were as much threatened by the bullets and the persecution of the regimes forces as everybody else: „At 5 o’clock in the morning I was standing between soldiers and protesters at Avenue Habib Bourguiba being enthusiastic to feel the solidarity of the people in the streets.“