Fatma Zohra Zamoum (born 19 January 1967) is a Franco-Algerian writer, filmmaker and educator.

Biography

Zamoun was born in

Bordj Menaïel Bordj Menaïel (from the Arabic برج - bordj, "tower" and Berber ''imnayen'' "cavaliers") is a town in the Boumerdès Province in Algeria. It is located in the western Kabylie region at and is 30 km away from the city of Boumerdès. As ...

in the north of Algeria, within a well-known family whose ancestors are Omar ben Zamoum and

Mohamed ben Zamoum Mohamed ben Zamoum (born in Boghni on 1795 and died also in Boghni on 1843) was a Kabyle marabout who participated in the Algerian resistance against the French conquest of Algeria. Family Mohamed ben Zamoum was born during the year 1795 i ...

. After attending the Fine Arts School in Algiers (1985–1988), she went to Paris where she graduated in Cinematography and Audiovisual Studies from the

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in 1995. She divides her time between Algiers and Paris, pursuing her principal interests, painting, fiction and the cinema. '' Z'har'' (2009) is Zamoun's first feature film, depicting scenes from the violence Algiers experienced in the 1990s. In 2005, she directed the short fiction film ''La Pelote de Laine'' and has also authored several books including ''Comment j'ai fumé tous mes livres'' (2006). In 2011, she directed and produced a second feature film ''Kedach Ethabni'' (Combien tu m'aimes) which tells the story of how little Adel copes with a period spent with his grandmother after his parents break up. She directed and produced since then "Azib Zamoum, A story About Land", in 2014 And in 2019, she achieved a low budget fiction film named PARKOUR(S) and an unreleased documentary: ''Body + Art''.

Works

* 1995: ''Photos de voyages'', documentary * 1996: ''Leçon de choses'', documentary * 1999: ''À tous ceux qui partent'', novel * 2003: ''Le Vingtième Siècle dans la peinture algérienne'', historical work and expertise * 2004: ''La Maison de Roy Azdak'', documentary * 2005: ''La Pelote de laine'', documentary * 2006: ''Comment j'ai fumé tous mes livres'', novel * 2009: '' Z'har'' (Un)Lucky, experimental film * 2009: ''Le Docker noir, documentary * 2012: ''Kedach Ethabni'' or ''How Big Is Your Love'', feature film * 2014 : "Azib Zamoum, A story About Land", docu drama for Tv and cinema * 2019 : "PARKOUR(S), a feature length fiction * 2019 : BODY + ART, a documentary feature length

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Zamoun, Fatma Zohra 1967 births Living people People from Bordj Menaïel Kabyle people Algerian film directors Algerian women film directors Algerian screenwriters Algerian women writers Algerian writers French women writers French film directors French women film directors Algerian educators French educators Algerian women educators French women educators 21st-century Algerian people

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