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 Casablanca, also known in Arabic as Dar al-Bayda ( ar, الدَّار الْبَيْضَاء, al-Dār al-Bayḍāʾ, ; ber, ⴹⴹⴰⵕⵍⴱⵉⴹⴰ, ḍḍaṛlbiḍa, : "White House") is the largest city in Morocco and the country's econom ...

to a Moroccan father and a French mother, she grew up between

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and

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. After graduating high school in Casablanca, she moved to

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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

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, featuring non-professional actors and dialogue exclusively in Tamazight. It won the Grand Jury Prize at the

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in 2020, and the César Award for Best Fiction Short Film in 2021. Alaoui's feature directorial debut, ''

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'' premiered at the

2023 Sundance Film Festival The 2023 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 19 to 29, 2023. The first lineup of competition films was announced on December 7, 2022. Films U.S. Dramatic Competition * ''The Accidental Getaway Driver'', directed by Sing J. Lee * ...

Filmography

Feature films

*2023: ''

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

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Alaoui, Sofia Moroccan women film directors Moroccan women writers Moroccan screenwriters 1990 births Living people