Sofia Alaoui
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.
Sofia Alaoui
- Name
- Sofia Alaoui
- Born
- 1990
- Birthplace
- Casablanca
- Occupation
- Film director, Screenwriter
- Nationality
- Morocco
- Known for
- So What If the Goats Die
- Honours
- César Award for Best Short Film · Grand Jury Prize of the Sundance Festival
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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.
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Sofia Alaoui (born 1990) is a national of Morocco. Sofia Alaoui was born in Casablanca.
Works include So What If the Goats Die. Sofia Alaoui received César Award for Best Short Film and Grand Jury Prize of the Sundance Festival.
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• Name — Sofia Alaoui • Born — 1990 • Birthplace — Casablanca • Citizenship — Morocco • Occupation — Film director, Screenwriter
Biography
Biography
Born in Casablanca to a Moroccan father and a French mother, she grew up between Morocco and China. After graduating high school in Casablanca, she moved to Paris 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 Atlas Mountains, featuring non-professional actors and dialogue exclusively in Tamazight. It won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival in 2020, and the César Award for Best Fiction Short Film in 2021. Alaoui's feature directorial debut, Animalia premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival.
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1990
Sofia Alaoui born at Casablanca.
Feature films
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• 2023: Animalia
Short films
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
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- 2.Sofia Alaoui. en.unifrance.org.
- 3.Sofia Alaoui. Lioumness.
- 4.French-Moroccan Director Sofia Alaoui Wins Cesar Award for Best Short Film MapNews. www.mapnews.ma.
- 5.Un apéro avec Sofia Alaoui : " Je voulais m'intéresser à cette société du paraître qui existe vraiment au Maroc ". Le Monde.fr. 2021-11-14.
- 6.Sofia Alaoui. Académie des César.
- 7.Jiango Films. www.unifrance.org.
- 8.KENZA DES CHOUX – FIFOG 2018.
- 9.Kenza des Choux Plein la Bobine. 2019-05-08.
- 10.Sofia Alaoui : "Je souhaite faire un cinéma marocain ambitieux et international avant tout". Telquel.ma.
- 11.so-what-if-the-goats-die. www.sundance.org.
- 12.Sofia Alaoui remporte le César du meilleur court métrage. L'Economiste. 2021-03-13.
- 13.Kudláč, Martin. An in-person Sundance returns with a raft of rising European voices. Cineuropa. 8 December 2022.
- 14.film-documentaire.fr - Portail du film documentaire. www.film-documentaire.fr.
- 15.oriGine / Kenza des Choux. www.originefilms.fr.
- 16.Documentaire: "Les Vagues ou Rien", la passion du surf contre vents et marées, dimanche à 22h00. 2M.
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Sofia Alaoui received César Award for Best Short Film and Grand Jury Prize of the Sundance Festival. Recorded as having received César Award for Best Short Film and Grand Jury Prize of the Sundance Festival.
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