Mehdi Hmili

[1] He is best known as the director of critically acclaimed shorts and feature films Thala My Love, The Night of Badr and Li-La.

After graduating with a degree in direction and screenplay from the Manouba University in Tunis, he moved to France for further studies.

After the critic success, he directed his second short The Night Of Badr, another black and white drama about an old homosexual poet.

Then in 2016, he made his debut feature film Thala Mon Amour.

Apart from filmmaking, he is also a popular poet in Tunisia where he made poems against the regime of Ben Ali.