Hicham Lasri (born April 13, 1977) is a Moroccan comics artist, film director, novelist, producer and screenwriter.
Biography
Lasri was born on April 13, 1977, in Casablanca. He grew up in a family of five brothers and a sister. After obtaining a degree in law, he changed orientation and begins a career of playwright. He was a student of the screenwriter Emmanuelle Sardou and the filmmaker Hassan Leghzouli. Then he did an internship supervised by Sylvie Bailly, that allowed him to deepen his training on Sitcoms.
Career
He became the protégé of
Nabil Ayouch
Nabil Ayouch (born 1 April 1969) is a Franco-Moroccan television and film director, producer, and writer. His films have screened at international film festivals including the Cannes Film Festival and Montreal World Film Festival.
Early life
H ...
and wrote his first screenplay in 2002 for one of his films, ''La légende d'Arhaz'', while also being the screenwriter of Lahcen Zinoun for ''La beauté éparpillée'' (2006).
From 2004 to 2006, he worked as director of writing in Nabil Ayouch's company, Ali n’prod, he will remain so between April 2006 and June 2007, for the "Film industry" project. He worked also as an artistic director and took the opportunity to direct ''Le peuple de l’horloge'', an 81-minute fiction.
In 2010, he co-produced ''Terminus des anges'' with
Narjiss Nejjar
Narjiss Nejjar (born 1971) is a Moroccan filmmaker and screenwriter. Her film ''Les Yeux Secs'' (''Cry No More'') was screened at Cannes in 2003.
Early life and career
Nejjar was a student at ESRA in Paris, where she studied filmmaking.
In 199 ...
and Mohamed Mouftakir. His first solo feature film was The end, produced in by Lamia Chraibi and her company La Prod.
In his second movie, ''C'est eux les chiens...'' (2013), he made the parallel between the Moroccan riots of 1981 and the
February 20 Movement. All in the form of a rather nervous
docufiction
Docufiction (or docu-fiction) is the cinematographic combination of documentary and fiction, this term often meaning narrative film. It is a film genre which attempts to capture reality such as it is (as direct cinema or cinéma vérité) a ...
.
After being selected at
ACID in Cannes, the film was screened at 32 other international festivals between 2013 and 2015, including
FESPACO
The Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (Festival panafricain du cinéma et de la télévision de Ouagadougou or FESPACO) is a film festival in Burkina Faso, held biennially in Ouagadougou, where the organization is based. It ...
,
Malmo and the
Carthage Film Festival. Lasri's other films were also selected four times at the
Berlinale
The Berlin International Film Festival (german: Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin), usually called the Berlinale (), is a major international film festival held annually in Berlin, Germany. Founded in 1951 and originally run in June, the festi ...
between 2014 and 2018.
His first Documentary, ''Nayda?,'' looks back at the 2000s Moroccan "Nayda" movement, likened to the Spanish
Movida.
Works
Filmography
Films
Television
Web series
Novels
*
*
*
*
Graphic novels
*
*
References
External links
*
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lasri, Hicham
1977 births
Living people
Moroccan film directors
Moroccan screenwriters
People from Casablanca