Zakia Tahri

Zakia Tahri
Born1963
Lille
NationalityMoroccan
OccupationFilm director - Screenwriter

Zakia Tahri, also known as Zakia Bouchaâla (born 1963) is a French-based filmmaker and actress of Moroccan descent.[1]

Life

Zakia Tahiri was born in Lille.[1] She acted in the French war film Fort Saganne (1984), and played the heroine in Farida Benlyazid's acclaimed Une porte sur la ciel (1987). She also had major roles in Mohamed Abderrahman Tazi's Moroccan films Badis (1989) and In Search of My Wife's Husband (1993).[2]

Her husband is the Algerian filmmaker Ahmed Bouchaâla. She co-wrote Bouchaâla's first film Krim (1995) and co-directed his second film, Origine contrôlée (2001). The pair also collaborated on writing Abdelhai Laraki's first Moroccan feature film, Mona Saber (2001).[1]

Zakia Tahri's 2009 comedy Number One examined gender relations, and particularly the performance of masculinity, in Morocco after the reformed Moudawana.[3][2]

Films

As write
(with Ahmed Bouchaâla) Krim (1995), dir, by Ahmed Bouchaâla
  • (with Ahmed Bouchaâla) Mona Saber (2001), dir. by Abdelhai Laraki
as director
  • (with Ahmed Bouchaâla) Origine contrôlée / Made in France, 2001
  • Number One, 2009
  • (with Ahmed Bouchaâla) Marh'ba, 2011

References

  1. ^ a b c Roy Armes (2008). "Bouchaâla, Zakia". Dictionary of African Filmmakers. Indiana University Press. p. 48. ISBN 0-253-35116-2.
  2. ^ a b Valérie K. Orlando (2011). Screening Morocco: Contemporary Film in a Changing Society. Ohio University Press. pp. 149–51. ISBN 978-0-89680-478-4.
  3. ^ Jimia Boutouba, The Moudawana Syndrome: Gender Trouble in Contemporary Morocco, Research in African Literatures, Vol. 45, No. 1, Spring 2014, pp.24-38.