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.
Narjiss Nejjar
- Name
- Narjiss Nejjar
- Born
- 1971
- Birthplace
- Tangiers, Morocco
- Occupation
- Director, screenwriter
- Nationality
- Morocco
- Education
- École Supérieure de Réalisation Audiovisuelle
- Languages
- Arabic · Berber
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Narjiss Nejjar (born 1971) is a Moroccan filmmaker and screenwriter. Her film Les Yeux Secs (Cry No More) was screened at Cannes in 2003.
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• Name — Narjiss Nejjar • Born — 1971 • Birthplace — Tangiers, Morocco • Occupation — Director, screenwriter • Notable Works — Wake Up Morocco
Early life and career
Early life and career
Nejjar was a student at ESRA in Paris, where she studied filmmaking. In 1994, she directed her first documentary L’exigence de la Dignite. She has worked on documentaries as well as fiction films; her best known feature film, Les Yeux Secs initially started as a documentary about the women of Tizi but the women declined to be filmed. The film was screened at the 2003 Cannes film festival and the 4th International Festival of Rabat Film where she received the grand prize. She is also the author of the novel Cahier d'empreintes; released in 1999. Nejjar is the daughter to the novelist Noufissa Sbai; Sbai was the producer on Les Yeux Secs.
Selected filmography
Selected filmography
• L’exigence de la Dignite (1994) • Khaddouj, Memoire de Targha (1996) • Les Salines (1998) • Le septième ciel (2001) • Le miroir du fou (2002) • Les yeux secs (Cry No More, 2003) • Wake Up Morocco (2006) • Terminus des anges (2010) • L'amante du rif (2011)
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- 1.L'interrogatoire. Telquel. 2011.
- 2.Narjiss Nejjar. Quinzaine des cinéastes.
- 3.Nejjar, Narjiss (1971-). Encyclopedia of Arab Women Filmmakers. Rebecca Hillauer. Allison Brown. Le Caire/ New York. The American University in Cairo Press. 2005. 357-358. 484.
- 4.Cinéma. L'Amante du Rif, de Narjiss Nejjar. Institut du monde arabe. 2014.
- 5.Patricia Caillé. Nejjar, Narjiss [Tanger 1971]. Dictionnaire universel des créatrices. Béatrice Didier, Antoinette Fouque et Mireille Calle-Gruber (dir.). Éditions Des femmes. 2013. 3145-3146.
- 6.Hillauer 2005. 357.
- 7.Les Yeux secs. Panorama des cinémas du Maghreb et du Moyen-Orient.
- 8.Repères. Les Yeux secs. Le Monde. 2004.
- 9.Fenêtres sur le cinéma du Sud 2010. Africiné.
- 10.SIEL 2022 : l’adaptation du roman au cinéma en débat avec Narjiss Nejjar et Abderrahmane Tazi. Le Matin. 2022.
- 11.Narjiss Nejjar nommée directrice de la cinémathèque marocaine. Le360. 2018.
- 12.La réalisatrice Narjiss Nejjar nommée directrice de la Cinémathèque Marocaine. Atlasinfo. 2021.
- 13.Cinéma : Les expulsés d’Algérie bientôt sur grand écran. Zamane. 15 décembre 2016.
- 14.Palmarès du Festival national du film : édition - Oujda 2003. Centre cinématographique marocain.
- 15.Palmarès 2003. FIFF Namur.
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