Nadia El Fani
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Born | 1960 |
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Years active | 1982–present |
Movement | Secular movement |
Nadia El Fani (
Biography
Career until 2011
Nadia El Fani was born to a French mother and a Tunisian father. Her father Béchir El Fani was one of the leaders of the Tunisian Communist Party after independence.[3] He appeared in her film Ouled Lenine.[4] She is the sister of cinematographer Sofian El Fani.
She began working in cinema as an intern
El Fani relocated to Paris in
Neither Allah nor Master controversy
The
In late April 2011, El Fani was invited by
An edited shorter version of the interview went viral online shortly after, causing an Islamist[
Her film premiered in France on 21 September 2011 with the title Laïcité, Inch'Allah !, and she received the Prix Internationale de la laïcité for it. She was also recovering from her cancer, joking that "The Revolution was the best of the remedies". Although she hoped to return to Tunisia "to live there and finally be free", she was afraid to go and that her passport would be confiscated.[9]
Career after 2011
El Fani directed Même pas mal in 2012. In it, she compares her struggle with breast cancer to the political battle against Islamic fundamentalism.[10]
After Tunisian
On 2 June 2017, the six complaints lodged against her in 2011 following the broadcast of her film Neither Allah nor Master were dismissed.[15] In November 2017, she returned to Tunisia to present her film Même pas mal.[16] It was the first time in six years she had been to Tunisia and seen her father, during which the state had banned all her films.[12]
Filmography
- 1990: Pour le plaisir ("For the Pleasure", short fiction film) – director
- 1992: Fifty-fifty mon amour ("Fifty-fifty My Love", short fiction film) – director
- 1993: Femmes Leader du Maghreb ("Women Leader of the Maghreb", long documentary film) – director
- 1993: Tanitez-moi (long documentary film) – director
- 1995: Mon cœur est témoin ("My Heart is My Witness", Québécois-Tunisian long documentary film by Louise Carré) – producer
- 1998: Tant qu'il y aura de la pelloche ("As Long As There Is Film", short documentary film) – director
- 2003: Bedwin Hacker ("Bedouin Hacker", long fiction film) – director, screenwriter and producer
- 2005: Unissez-vous, il n'est jamais trop tard ! ("Unite, It's Never Too Late!", for the short film series Paris la métisse ("The Mixed Paris")) – director
- 2007: Ouled Lenine ("Lenin's Children", long documentary film) – director
- 2011: Ni Allah ni Maître ("Neither Allah nor Master"), released in France under the title Laïcité, Inch'Allah ! ("Laïcité, Inshallah!", long documentary film) – director, producer
- 2012: Même pas mal ("It Doesn't Even Hurt", long documentary film) – co-director (with Alina Isabel Pérez) and screenwriter
- 2013: Nos seins, nos armes ! ("Our Breasts, Our Weapons!", long documentary film for FEMEN movement) – co-director (with Caroline Fourest)
Recognition
In 2011, El Fani received the Prix de la laïcité ("Secularism Award") from the Comité Laïcité République in France.[17] In 2013, she won the FESPACO award for Best Feature Documentary for Même Pas Mal.
References
- ^ "Nadia El Fani". IMDb. Retrieved 2020-10-09.
- ^ Welle (www.dw.com), Deutsche. "Nadia El Fani est l'invitée du Forum des cultures | DW | 18.10.2011". DW.COM (in French). Retrieved 2020-10-09.
- ^ a b c d e "Nadia El Fani". franceinter.fr (in French). Retrieved 14 March 2018.
- ^ "Entre manipulation télévisuelle et justesse cinématographique". Attariq Al Jadid (in French). 4 November 2008. Retrieved 30 September 2017.
- allocine.fr. Retrieved 25 March 2016.
- imdb.com. Retrieved 25 March 2016.
- ^ L'Obs(in French). Retrieved 13 March 2018.
- ^ Sanogo, Aboubakar. "IN FOCUS: Studying African Cinema and Media Today" (PDF). Cinema Journal.
- ^ a b Gaëlle Rolin (23 October 2011). "Nadia El Fani, Liberté, égalité, laïcité". Madame Figaro (in French). Retrieved 14 March 2018.
- ^ a b Henda Chennaoui (1 December 2015). "Nadia El Fani fait son Cinéma ?". Nawaat (in French). Retrieved 14 March 2018.
- ^ a b Elhanan Miller (8 June 2012). "Exiled Tunisian filmmaker comes to Tel Aviv to explain the revolution she documented". The Times of Israel. Retrieved 13 March 2018.
- ^ a b Hadani Ditmars (15 February 2018). "Nadia el-Fani: a soldier of secularism fights on". Middle East Institute. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
- ^ Daniel Silas Adamson (22 October 2014). "My enemy's enemy - the battle for secularism". OpenDemocracy. Retrieved 13 March 2018.
- ^ Priscilla Frank (17 November 2016). "Paintings Of Feminist Protestors Celebrate The Women Who Bare It All To Fight Back". HuffPost. Retrieved 13 March 2018.
- ^ "Cinéma : les plaintes contre Nadia El Fani classées sans suite". kapitalis.com (in French). 2 June 2017. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
- ^ "Même pas mal de Nadia El Fani aux JCC 2017". kapitalis.com (in French). 24 October 2017. Retrieved 18 November 2017.
- ^ "Les lauréats du Prix de la Laïcité et les présidents du jury depuis 2003". laicite-republique.org (in French). 7 September 2017. Retrieved 10 October 2017.
External links
- Official blog
- Nadia El Fani at IMDb
- Nadia El Fani at AlloCiné (in French)