Nina Khada
Directing
Biography
Director and editor born in France in 1991 to Algerian parents, who holds both French and Algerian nationality. She currently lives in Marseille. After studying editing for two years and broadcast journalism for one, she graduated with Master's in Documentary Filmmaking. She also works as an assistant director, editor and camera operator. She directed her first documentary short, "Fatima," in 2016, focused on the figure of her grandmother, and selected in more than thirty festivals worldwide, such as the Istanbul International Short Film Festival and E Tudo Verdade. 2020 sees the début of her second work, "I bit my tongue," at the Cairo International Film Festival, where it competes in the Cinema of Tomorrow section.
Known For
Alone in a small white house on the edge of national road 1, the Trans-Saharan road, which connects Algiers to Tamanrasset crossing the immensity of the desert, Malika, 74, one day opened her door to the director Hassen Ferhani, who came there to scout with his friend Chawki Amari, journalist at El Watan and author of the story Nationale 1 which relates his journey on this north-south axis of more than 2000 km. The Malika of Amari's novel, which Ferhani admits to having first perceived as a "literary fantasy", suddenly takes on an unsuspected human depth in this environment naturally hostile to man. She lends herself to the film project as she welcomes her clients, with an economy of gestures and words, an impression reinforced by the mystery that surrounds her and the rare elements of her biography which suggest that she is not from the region, that she left the fertile north of Algeria to settle in the desert where she lives with a dog and a cat.
143 Sahara Street
Twenty-year-old Nora takes her grandmother’s body to Algeria. Once there, her family discourage her from attending the funeral. Trapped between the four walls of the family home where she watches over her grandmother’s body, she is enraged. Silently.
Night Watchers
A poetic David and Goliath tale, where David is an eco-activist with shields, helmets and Molotov cocktails in the backpack. Director Laurie Lassalle documents the spirit and atmosphere with loyalty and an extraordinarily confident cinematic vision.
Red Forest
The death of a Burkinabé family’s patriarch and the division of his estate unearths conflict between his heirs and larger questions about inheritance, belonging and the communal customs of West Africa versus Westernized courts.
Al Djanat, the Original Paradise
An Algerian woman, raised in France, returns to Tunis to search for her grandmother's language that she has lost. She interviews locals between thoughts of exploring the city and her homeland.
I bit my tongue
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