Selma Baccar

[1][2] Baccar is known for creating manifestos through her films, centered around women's rights in Tunisia.

She relocated after 2 years to study film in Paris at Institut Français de Cinéma.

[3] She then became a member of the Tunisian Federation of Amateur Filmmakers (Fédération Tunisienne des Cinéastes Amateurs, FTCA), where she worked as an assistant director for a Tunisian television series.

"[5] The film uses a didactic style film that addresses feminism in Tunisia[1] and was banned for several years, due to censorship issues in multiple scenes, by the Tunisian Ministry of information, and could not be viewed in commercial movie theatres.

[3] Flowers of Oblivion told the story of Zakia, an opium addict in a psychiatric hospital in Vichy-ruled Tunisia in the 1940s.