Moroccan French Film director and screenwriter

Sometimes she is credited as
Meryem BENM'BAREK-ALOïSI

Meryem Benm'Barek was born in 1984 in Rabat. She studied Arabic Languages and Civilisations at the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations in Paris before entering the directing department at INSAS in Brussels in 2010. There, she directed five short films, notably "The After Shave", "Penthélisée", NOR (2013) and JENNAH (2014), which was selected for numerous international film festivals, and was considered for submission for an Academy Award in 2015.
She also creates HOW DOES IT SOUND, a sound design artwork, which has had exhibitions at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and Sao Paulo Biennale.
SOFIA (2018), her first feature film, is notably a recipient of the Gan Fondation prize and a grant from the Doha Film institute.

Source:
PressKit, SOFIA (2018)

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ARABIC

المخرج، مريم مبارك الويسي

مريم بن مبارك العويسي وُلدت في المغرب ونشأت في بلجيكا وفرنسا. درست الدراما وثقافة المغرب العربي والشرق الأوسط. دخلت مدرسة السينما البلجيكية حيث قدمت أفلامها القصيرة "بعد الحلاقة"، "بنتيليزيه"، "نور" و"جنّة
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Source:
www.abudhabifilmfestival.ae/ar/archive/2014/films-2014/film-details?ID=14974