Lotfi Achour

Lotfi Achour (Arabic: لطفي عاشور) is a Tunisian writer, producer and director for theater and cinema.

[1] He is the author of more than 25 theater productions on different stages (London, Paris, Festival In d'Avignon, Tunis, Carthage, Hammamet, Byblos, Kinshasa, Yaoundé…).

In cinema, he produced three award-winning shorts presented at dozens of festivals, including Father (Père) and Law of Lamb (La Laine sur le dos), which screened in the short film competition at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.

Achour arrived in France at age twenty, where he attended Sorbonne University to pursue cinema and theater.

He ran the Rio Theatre in Grenoble for four years, making it exclusively for contemporary art and living artists.