Sofia Alaoui
Sofia Alaoui (born 1990 in Casablanca) is a French-Moroccan director and screenwriter.[1][2] She is best known for her short film Qu'importe si les bêtes meurent.[3][4]
Biography[edit]
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.[5] In 2017, she returned to Morocco to develop her own production company, Jiango Films.[6][7]
Her first short fiction film, Kenza des choux, was screened at a number of festivals.[8][9]
Her next film, Qu'importe si les bêtes meurent, was shot in the Atlas Mountains, featuring non-professional actors and dialogue exclusively in Tamazight.[10] It won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival in 2020,[11] and the César Award for Best Fiction Short Film in 2021.[12]
Alaoui's feature directorial debut, Animalia premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival.[13]
Filmography[edit]
Feature films[edit]
- 2023: Animalia
Short films[edit]
- 2013 : Le rêve de Cendrillon
- 2015 : Les enfants de Naplouse (documentary broadcast on France 3 and TV5)[14]
- 2018 : Kenza des choux[15]
- 2019 : Les vagues ou rien[16]
- 2020 : So What If the Goats Die
- 2020 : The Lake
References[edit]
- ^ "Sofia Alaoui | Meditalents" (in French). Retrieved 2021-11-20.
- ^ "Sofia Alaoui". en.unifrance.org. Retrieved 2021-11-20.
- ^ "Sofia Alaoui". Lioumness. Retrieved 2021-11-20.
- ^ "French-Moroccan Director Sofia Alaoui Wins Cesar Award for Best Short Film | MapNews". www.mapnews.ma. Retrieved 2021-11-20.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Sofia Alaoui". Académie des César. Retrieved 2021-11-20.
- ^ "Jiango Films". www.unifrance.org (in French). Retrieved 2021-11-20.
- ^ "KENZA DES CHOUX – FIFOG 2018" (in French). Retrieved 2021-11-20.
- ^ "Kenza des Choux | Plein la Bobine" (in French). 2019-05-08. Retrieved 2021-11-20.
- ^ "Sofia Alaoui : "Je souhaite faire un cinéma marocain ambitieux et international avant tout"". Telquel.ma (in French). Retrieved 2021-11-20.
- ^ "so-what-if-the-goats-die". www.sundance.org. Retrieved 2021-11-20.
- ^ "Sofia Alaoui remporte le César du meilleur court métrage". L'Economiste (in French). 2021-03-13. Retrieved 2021-11-20.
- ^ Kudláč, Martin (8 December 2022). "An in-person Sundance returns with a raft of rising European voices". Cineuropa. Retrieved 27 January 2023.
- ^ "film-documentaire.fr - Portail du film documentaire". www.film-documentaire.fr. Retrieved 2021-11-20.
- ^ "oriGine / Kenza des Choux". www.originefilms.fr. Retrieved 2021-11-20.
- ^ "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[edit]
- Sofia Alaoui at IMDb
