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  1. The Silences of the Palace (Arabic: صمت القصور, romanized: ṣamt al-quṣūr) is a 1994 Tunisian film co-written and directed by Moufida Tlatli. The film investigates issues of gender, class and sexuality in the Arab world through the lives of two generations of women at a prince's palace.

  2. Sep 7, 1994 · The Silences of the Palace: Directed by Moufida Tlatli. With Hind Sabri, Ghalya Lacroix, Nejia Ouerghi, Amel Hedhili. As she grows up, Alia (the daughter of housemaid Khedija) learns the secrets of the peaceful palace where she and her mother live.

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    • Drama
    • Moufida Tlatli
    • 1994-09-07
  3. Feb 10, 2021 · The late Tunisian filmmaker, who has died aged 73, reflects on the legacies of colonialism and patriarchy, as distilled in her stunning debut feature, in this conversation with Laura Mulvey, originally published in our March 1995 issue. 10 February 2021. The Silences of the Palace (1994) By Laura Mulvey. Interviews.

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  5. Set in 1950s Tunisia, a 25-year-old woman, Alia, returns to her place of birth-a prince's palace in which her mother, Khedija, worked as a house servant and mistress of prince Sid' Ali. She had fled the palace ten years earlier, at which time she spent burying tortured memories of her childhood.

  6. The Silences of the Palace peers into the crushing tiled walls of a Tunisian household through the rushing memories of a young woman’s childhood as daughter to a servant. Moufida Tlatli, the first Arab woman to direct a feature film in the Arab World, uses the female perspective of character’s coming of age to echo her country’s past ...

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  8. Set in 1960s Tunisia as the country is emerging from the yoke of colonialism, this film focuses on Alia (Ghalia Lacroix), a singer who visits the palace where her mother, Khedija (Amel Hedhili ...

    • Drama