Category: Filmmaking
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Sahar El Echi (b. 1992) lives and works in Tunisia. She is a visual artist, filmmaker, and film curator. A graduate of the School of Fine Arts in Tunisia, she also holds an MA in visual design with distinction. Sahar has directed several independent films, including Mutation, Manwella, In-Between, and Correspondences. She has participated in…
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Born in Casablanca, Morocco (1991), lives and works in France. Lina Laraki is a graduate from Central Saint Martins (2014) and Le Fresnoy (2022). Her practice sits between visual arts and cinema. In her short films, Lina stages marginal characters in a fantasised surreal world. Her films have been shown internationally, that includes The Last…
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Nesrine Salem is interested in the hypervisibilization of diasporic beings. She uses post-digital image-capture methods such as 360° cameras to gather filmic material that she calls “reported videos”. Through her video work and the installation of her films, she highlights a common elsewhere, its strangeness as well as its familiarity, by connecting seemingly unrelated spaces.…
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Amira Louadah was born in Algiers. From 2014 to 2021, she studied design and visual arts at Ensci, les Ateliers de Paris, where she developed a passion for staging and storytelling. During her studies, she embarked on formative journeys, including stays in Chiang Mai, Thailand, and New York City, United States, where she began capturing…
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(1947 – 2015) Asma el Bakry was born in Cairo to an aristocratic and community-oriented family. Her maternal grandfather, Sakakini Pasha, is known to have established the Sakakini quarter in El Zaher district in Cairo, the Roman Catholic Patriarchate in Faggala and the Roman Catholic Cemetery in Old Cairo. She moved to Alexandria, however, as…
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Graduated from Saint Joseph University in Beirut in 2012, Melissa Chalhoub has directed and sound designed many experimental short films, and has been working as a visual artist and illustrator, translating what she learned from movie making onto paper. Melissa Chalhoub took part in many art fairs around the world, from Egypt, Amsterdam, Barcelona to…
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Born and raised in Morocco, Yasmine Benabdallah is a filmmaker and visual artist whose work explores memory, performance, embodiment, diaspora, archives, rituals, and time travel. Yasmine’s films and installations have been shown in Morocco, France, Egypt, Palestine, Canada, Germany, Portugal, Tunisia, the US, the UK, and the UAE, where “How to reverse a spell: the…
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Born in 1994 – Based in Tunis Harrabi is a visual artist, editor, documentary filmmaker and cultural practitioner. After several experiences in different cultural media in Tunisia as a journalist, video creator, chief editor and communication manager, she found her path in audiovisual collaborations with artists and young artistic collectives in Tunisia and abroad. In…
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Wiame Haddad (1987) is a Tunisian, Moroccan and French artist and filmmaker. She is a graduate of the ESAD in Valenciennes and the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Visuels de la Cambre in Brussels. Her artistic work takes on the scope of a photographic and cinematographic study, constituting ethical and formal research. This research is…
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Born to an Austrian mother and a Lebanese father, Tanya spent her early childhood in Beirut. Growing up between two very different cultures, she experienced not only cultural enrichment but also a profound alienation from the concept of “home”. This sense of disruption and search defines Tanya’s photographic work throughout the years. Later on, while…