Walid Mattar was born in 1980 in Tunisia. He earned a master’s degree in communications and management at a Parisian university. At the age of 13 he joined the Tunisian Faculty of Amateur Cinematographers, and he participated in many films as cameraman or photography director. In 2003 he directed the action film Armoured Abdelkerim that was very successful with the public and the critics and garnered prizes in Tunisia and abroad. In 2006 he directed Good Morning together with Leila Abouzeid, which was screened at the Cannes Film Festival in the World Cinema section. He also directed a documentary, Fekrouna’s Children, is about to finish a new film Nahdi Alales, and is preparing for a new one, Father Nawal. Apart from that, he is also working on his first long feature.