NADIA EL FANI (Tunisia)

In 1990 she directed her first work, the short documentary Pour le plaisir, where she already shows her transgressive attitude by directly showing the need to be master of one’s own body. Her next work is Fiftu-fifty, mon amour, a reflection on identity with autobiographical overtones.

In 2001, Nadia El Fani released her first fiction feature film, Bedwin Hacker, which deals with the power of information and television with the aim of inverting and questioning North-South relations.

In 2007 he released Ouled Lenine, a documentary focused on the figure of his father. In 2011 he makes the documentary Laïcite Inch’allah! a manifesto to secularism and a call for tolerance and freedom of expression, filmed three months before the fall of Ben Ali after the revolutions of the Arab Spring.

When the documentary is released in Tunisia, the director is threatened with death by Islamists, while at the same time she struggles to overcome and overcome the cancer she has been diagnosed with. To portray both struggles, against extremists and against the disease, and to show the consequences and the fear that a film can trigger, Nadia El Fani makes, together with Alina Isabel Perez, Même pas mal (2012).

A year later she directs with Caroline Fourest Elles livrent bataille: Nos seins, nos armes, a documentary about the birth of Femen in Ukraine and its expansion to France in 2012.