France honours Tunisia director at Cannes

Nouri Bouzid hails Tunisian revolution as he accepts Legion of Honour medal from France. Tunisian director Nouri Bouzid hailed the revolution in his homeland on Thursday as he accepted a Legion of Honour medal from France but wondered aloud about his future as a dissident. In remarks addressed to his film-making compatriots, Bouzid  whose 2006 film "Making Of" tackled fundamentalism and terrorism  said: "Nothing must scare us anymore." "I have always sided with the wounded, the losers, the defeated, people who have nothing left but their rebellion," he said. But he acknowledged: "I do have a small problem with the revolution -- how am I now going to challenge authority?" Bouzid accepted his laurel from Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand as Tunisia ends an 11-year absence from Cannes with "No More Fear", a documentary on the uprising that led to president Zine el Abidine Ben Ali's downfall.