Halima Ouardiri is a

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film director, producer, and screenwriter.Ismaël Houdassine
"Une vie de chien avec « Clebs » de Halima Ouardiri"

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, February 21, 2020.

Career

Ouardiri first garnered acclaim for her 2010 short film '' Mokhtar'', which was a shortlisted

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at the 13th Jutra Awards in 2011, and her 2019 short film '' Mutts (Clebs)'', which won a Crystal Bear for best short film in the Generation 14Plus program at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival in 2020. Born in

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to a Swiss mother and a Moroccan father, Ouardiri moved to

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to study film at the

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. In addition to her own films, she was credited as a producer on Kalina Bertin's 2017 documentary film '' Manic''. In 2018, she was one of eight women filmmakers selected for the

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's Apprenticeship for Women Directors program, alongside

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, Kirsten Carthew, Alicia K. Harris, Allison White,

Asia Youngman Asia Youngman is a Cree- Métis filmmaker from Canada. In 2017 she released her debut short documentary film ''Lelum, which won the award for Best Documentary Short at the 2017 imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival. In 2018, she was one of ...

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, and

Kristina Wagenbauer Kristina Wagenbauer is a Canadian film director and screenwriter based in Montreal, Quebec. She is most noted for her 2017 feature film '' Sashinka'', for which she was a Prix Iris nominee for Best Casting at the 21st Quebec Cinema Awards in 2019, ...

. Ouardiri's first narrative feature film, ''The Camel Driving School'', entered production in 2020.Frédéric Bouchard
"Halima Ouardiri prépare la comédie féministe « La Camel Driving School »"
''Lien Multimédia'', October 14, 2020. As of 2022, the film has not yet been released.

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