
Leila Kilani
Directing
Biography
Leïla Kilani is a Moroccan director, screenwriter, and producer. Kilani has worked on films such as Nos Lieux Interdits, Zad Moultaka, and directed the feature film On the Edge. Kilani was born in the large city of Casablanca in the northern part of Africa.
Known For

During the oppressive reign of Moroccan King Hassan II in the 70s and 80s (Years of Lead), many dissidents went missing. After the throning of a new king, a truth commission was formed in the 2000's. Families of the missing speak.
Our Forbidden Places

Set between a numbing, malodorous factory and the demi-monde of nocturnal Tangier, two street-smart young women work tirelessly to move on with their lives. By day the fast-talking, live-wire Badia and her quiet friend Imane peel shrimp in a factory; by night, they hit the seaside hotels, turn tricks and steal small objects from their clients to pawn. One night they meet two pretty girls their own age who work in the Free Zone of Tangier, a heavily guarded, European-style industrial area. The determined Badia hates peeling shrimps and sees the two new girlfriends, who are slightly better off, as a springboard.
On the Edge

Far from relegating its dreamtime visions to a nostalgic prelapsarian past, Indivision fuses its depiction of nature with the new means of communication and creation engendered by the internet. The mute Lina, who writes keywords and questions all over her body, emerges as a paradoxical teenage warrior for our troubled times: she believes herself to be a superheroine, gifted or cursed, who holds the fate of the whole world in her hands.
Birdland
A family gathers at the Mansouria, the old jointly owned family estate on a hill in Tangier. The opportunity to sell a huge piece of the estate to a real estate developer will make them millionaires, but the transaction turns out to be more complicated than expected.
Joint Possession

Tangier has an open identity on the Strait of Gibraltar. The border here is a presence: it is water. Opposite, Spain. Candidates for illegal departure flock without interruption to Tangier. The film follows the adventure of a few ready to "burn" their identity, to cross or die...