Lotfi Achour


Lotfi Achour is a Tunisian writer, producer and director for theater and cinema. He is the author of more than 25 theater productions on different stages. His last show was co-produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company for the 2012 Olympic Games London.
In cinema, he produced three award-winning shorts presented at dozens of festivals, including Father and Law of Lamb , which screened in the short film competition at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.
In 2016, he directed and produced his first feature film, Burning Hope . He followed up in 2024 with Red Path .

Early life

He was born in Bab Souika, an emblematic cultural area of the Medina of Tunis. Achour arrived in France at age twenty, where he attended Sorbonne University to pursue cinema and theater. He took part in the Varan workshops on documentary filmmaking.

Career

He associated with the author Natacha Pontcharra, with whom he created a dozen texts in residence in various drama centers and national scenes, including La Chartreuse de Villeneuve Lez Avignon, where he directed three shows, including L’Angélie, a show created at the Avignon Festival in 1998, and billed as "The best show in Avignon festival", by Le Soir in Belgium. Achour thus became the first Tunisian director to occur in the "IN" of Avignon Festival.
Working in both Arabic and French, he designed and implemented international projects involving multidisciplinary artistic collaborations with artists from different nationalities and backgrounds. He ran the Rio Theatre in Grenoble for four years, making it exclusively for contemporary art and living artists.
He designed an installation for the Nuit Blanche in Paris 2006.
In 2009, he joined Anissa Daoud, actress and author, and created the APA, Artistes Producteurs Associés, a structure for innovative creation that produces movies, theater plays, and musical performances.

Personal life

Achour is married to a Russian playwright. His daughter Doria Achour is an actress and film director.

Cinema

Features

  • 2016: Burning Hope
  • 2024: ''Red Path ''

    Short movies

  • 2006: Ordure
  • 2015: Father
  • 2016: Law of Lamb
  • 2022: ''Blind Spot ''

    Theatre

  • 1991: Cet assassin-là vous aime
  • 1993: Œil de cyclone
  • 1994: La Gazelle et l'enfant
  • 1994: Portrait d'art, baptême et mariage
  • 1995: Zeyneb
  • 1996: Mickey la torche
  • 1997: La Trempe
  • 1998: L'Angélie
  • 2000: Dancing
  • 2000: Les Brûlants
  • 2000: Les Ratés
  • 2000: Essbaïhi
  • 2002: La Franchise c'est bien
  • 2002: Oum
  • 2004: La Traversée de Gibran Khalil Gibran
  • 2006: Ichkabad
  • 2007: La Comédie indigène
  • 2009: Hobb Story, Sex in the City
  • 2012: ''Macbeth, Leïla and Ben: a Bloody History''