Narjiss Nejjar

Narjiss Nejjar (born 1971) is a Moroccan filmmaker and screenwriter. Her film Les Yeux Secs (Cry No More)[lower-alpha 1] was screened at Cannes in 2003.[1]

Narjiss Nejjar
Born1971
Tangiers, Morocco
NationalityMoroccan
OccupationDirector, screenwriter

Early life and career

Nejjar was a student at ESRA in Paris, where she studied filmmaking.[2]

In 1994, she directed her first documentary L’exigence de la Dignite.[3] 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.[4] The film was screened at the 2003 Cannes film festival and the 4th International Festival of Rabat Film where she received the grand prize.[3]

She is also the author of the novel Cahier d'empreintes; released in 1999.[2]

Nejjar is the daughter to the novelist Noufissa Sbai; Sbai was the producer on Les Yeux Secs.

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)

See also

Notes
  1. Sometimes translated as Dry Eyes.

References
  1. "Narjiss NEJJAR". Festival De Cannes. Retrieved 23 January 2016.
  2. Armes, Roy (2008). Dictionary of African Filmmakers. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. p. 223. ISBN 9780253000422. Retrieved 23 January 2016.
  3. "Narjiss Nejjar". Websil Sarl. October 19, 2005. Retrieved 1 February 2016.
  4. Pallister, Janis L.; Hottell, Ruth A. (2011). Noteworthy Francophone Women Directors: A Sequel. Madison, NJ; Lanham, Md.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 100–101. ISBN 9781611474435. Retrieved 23 January 2016.
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