Misplaced Pages

Sofia Alaoui

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
French-Moroccan director and screenwriter

Sofia Alaoui (born 1990 in Casablanca) is a French-Moroccan director and screenwriter. She is best known for her short film Qu'importe si les bêtes meurent.

Biography

Born in Casablanca to a Moroccan father and a French mother, she grew up between Morocco and China. After graduating high school in Casablanca, she moved to Paris to study cinema. In 2017, she returned to Morocco to develop her own production company, Jiango Films.

Her first short fiction film, Kenza des choux, was screened at a number of festivals.

Her next film, Qu'importe si les bêtes meurent, was shot in the Atlas Mountains, featuring non-professional actors and dialogue exclusively in Tamazight. It won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival in 2020, and the César Award for Best Fiction Short Film in 2021.

Alaoui's feature directorial debut, Animalia premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival.

Filmography

Feature films

Short films

  • 2013 : Le rêve de Cendrillon
  • 2015 : Les enfants de Naplouse (documentary broadcast on France 3 and TV5)
  • 2018 : Kenza des choux
  • 2019 : Les vagues ou rien
  • 2020 : So What If the Goats Die
  • 2020 : The Lake

References

  1. "Sofia Alaoui | Meditalents" (in French). Retrieved 2021-11-20.
  2. "Sofia Alaoui". en.unifrance.org. Retrieved 2021-11-20.
  3. "Sofia Alaoui". Lioumness. Retrieved 2021-11-20.
  4. "French-Moroccan Director Sofia Alaoui Wins Cesar Award for Best Short Film | MapNews". www.mapnews.ma. Retrieved 2021-11-20.
  5. "Un apéro avec Sofia Alaoui : " Je voulais m'intéresser à cette société du paraître qui existe vraiment au Maroc "". Le Monde.fr (in French). 2021-11-14. Retrieved 2021-11-20.
  6. "Sofia Alaoui". Académie des César. Retrieved 2021-11-20.
  7. "Jiango Films". www.unifrance.org (in French). Retrieved 2021-11-20.
  8. "KENZA DES CHOUX – FIFOG 2018" (in French). Retrieved 2021-11-20.
  9. "Kenza des Choux | Plein la Bobine" (in French). 2019-05-08. Retrieved 2021-11-20.
  10. "Sofia Alaoui : "Je souhaite faire un cinéma marocain ambitieux et international avant tout"". Telquel.ma (in French). Retrieved 2021-11-20.
  11. "so-what-if-the-goats-die". www.sundance.org. Retrieved 2021-11-20.
  12. "Sofia Alaoui remporte le César du meilleur court métrage". L'Economiste (in French). 2021-03-13. Retrieved 2021-11-20.
  13. Kudláč, Martin (8 December 2022). "An in-person Sundance returns with a raft of rising European voices". Cineuropa. Retrieved 27 January 2023.
  14. "film-documentaire.fr - Portail du film documentaire". www.film-documentaire.fr. Retrieved 2021-11-20.
  15. "oriGine / Kenza des Choux". www.originefilms.fr. Retrieved 2021-11-20.
  16. "Documentaire: "Les Vagues ou Rien", la passion du surf contre vents et marées, dimanche à 22h00". 2M (in French). Retrieved 2021-11-20.

External links

Categories: