Leyla Bouzid

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Director and screenwriter Leyla Bouzid during the screening of the film Vent du Nord on the occasion of the premiere on March 22, 2018 in Beauvais

Leyla Bouzid ( Arabic ليلى بوزيد, DMG Lailā Būzaid ; * 1984 in Tunis ) is a Tunisian film director and screenwriter . Her feature film debut Barely I Open My Eyes (fr: À peine j'ouvre les yeux) was nominated for the Tanit d'or des Carthage Film Festival (fr: Journées cinématographiques de Carthage - JCC) in 2015 and received four prizes, among others the Tanit de bronze honored and at the French film Festival Tübingen-Stuttgart in 2015 as Best Newcomer film and also in 2015 at the Dubai International film Festival with the Muhr Award excellent. For the film Vent du Nord she was honored with the award for the best screenplay at the 28th edition of the Carthage Film Festival 2017 .

biography

Family and education

Bouzid is the daughter of a general practitioner and filmmaker Nouri Bouzid . Growing up in Tunis, between the districts of El Menzah VII and El Manar I, she came into contact with the images and stories of the cinema at an early age. In an interview with Le Monde , she once said that it was her mother who made her love the cinema. At the age of 16 she joined the Tunis Club of the Tunisian Federation of Amateur Filmmakers (FTCA), where she initially concealed from other members that she is the daughter of the filmmaker Bouzid and that she had been playing small roles or characters in her father's films since childhood until she was accidentally exposed after 9 months when she was driving a car with her father and friends from the movie club stopped next to them at a red light. It was the mother who took her to the cinema evenings for Citizen Kane by Orson Welles or Herbstsonate by Ingmar Bergman . She only saw the father's films later, as she revealed in an interview with l'express in 2015.

In 2003 she went to Paris to study literature at the Sorbonne . After a few internships, she then moved to the Fémis in the directing department. At the end of her studies in 2011, she made her short film Soubresauts , shot a few months before the revolution in Tunisia 2010/2011 , which won the Grand Prix at the Premiers Plans d'Angers Festival in 2012. Bouzid is a member of the film and television production team for Blue Monday Productions . In 2016, Bouzid was awarded the Chevalier de l'Ordre de la République in the Presidential Palace of Carthage by President Beji Caid Essebsi - on the occasion of the national women's day . At the Festival du Court-Métrage de Clermont-Ferrand , Leyla Bouzid was a member of the jury in the “Jury National” section in 2016 alongside director Guillaume Brac, director Émilie Brisavoine, director and screenwriter Philippe Faucon and virtuoso Dom La Nena.

Create

In 2006 Bouzid first came into focus when she produced the short film Sbah El Khir, produced together with Walid Mattar, as part of the project by director Ibrahim Letaïef Long et Court as “10 Courts, 10 Regards de jeunes cinéastes Tunisiens” at the Cannes International Film Festival in the Section «Tous les cinémas du monde». She then gained experience as an assistant director alongside Jean Douchet for his film À bicyclette . Together with Walid Mattar, she wrote the scripts for his short films Tendid and Offrande in 2010 and 2012 . During her third year studies at Fémis, she made the short film Un Ange passe , for which she directed and wrote the screenplay with Marie-Sophie Chambon and Mélanie Parent-Chauveau. The film received 2 awards in Pontault-Combault and Créteil in the same year . During her studies she was also an assistant director for the short film Le Hibou before she presented her graduation film with Soubresauts as director in 2011 , for which she also wrote the script together with Marie-Sophie Chambon. The film received the Birds Eye View Award at the Birds Eye View Film Festival in London and the award for Best Short Film at the Verona Film Festival .

In 2011 and 2012 she worked with her father Nouri Bouzid for his film Millefeuille . She supported him as a script supervisor and was also seen in the film in an acting role as a camerawoman. She also appeared in front of the camera in her father's film Tunisiennes in 1997. In 2013 she wrote another screenplay with Marie-Sophie Chambon for the short film Gamine, which she directed, before she did her short film Zakaria in the same year Received prizes at FESPACO or the film festival in Milan . For the film, she works with amateur actors to tell her story of Zakaria - who lives in the south of France, who wants to return with his family after the death of his father in Algeria, but his daughter Sarah refuses to accompany him. She completed another job as assistant director at the side of Abdellatif Kechiche , who won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes International Film Festival with his film - Blue is a warm color - and gave Bouzid the opportunity to prepare for her own feature film debut. The screenplay for Leyla Bouzid's work Hardly I open my eyes was created with college friend Marie-Sophie Chambon , who received the Europa Cinemas Label Award at the Venice Film Festival 2015 as well as the LUX film award at the Venice International Film Festival 2016 was shown. The film about Farah, a young woman who defies her mother's wishes and would rather become a singer instead of studying medicine with her brilliant high school diploma, is set shortly before the revolution in Tunisia 2010/2011 and made the filmmaker Bouzid well known.

On September 26, 2016 it was announced that the Tunisian-French-Belgian production Barely I Open My Eyes , finalist for the LUX 2016, was selected by the commission of the National Center of Cinema and Image (CNCI) to include Tunisia at the upcoming Academy Awards To represent 2017 as the best foreign language film . Originally, Fleur d'Alep by Ridha Behi was supposed to enter the competition for Tunisia, but since the film had not yet been shown it did not meet the necessary criteria for an application. That is why Bouzid's film was also submitted, which was apparently assessed as a “lack of seriousness” and is said to have led to the disqualification of the Tunisian entry. Bouzid was also successful with her screenplay for Vent du Nord , the feature film debut by Walid Mattar, which she wrote together with Claude Le Pape, known as co-writer of director Thomas Cailley for his film Love at first sight . The film was awarded the Prix ​​Tahar Chériaa for Best First Work at the Carthage Film Festival , received the TV5 Monde Award and honored the screenwriters Bouzid, Le Pape and Mattar with the Prize for Best Screenplay in the official competition. In September 2019 it was announced that in mid-October of that year the shooting of the second feature film Une histoire d'amour et de désir by Leyla Bouzid with Sami Outalbali, known from Fiertés - Courage to Love , in the leading role, for 8 weeks in and around Paris will begin.

Works

Film director

  • 2006: Sbah El Khir (short film)
  • 2009: La Tête qu'elle veut (short film)
  • 2009: À bicyclette
  • 2010: Un Ange passe (short film)
  • 2011: Le Hibou (short film)
  • 2012: Soubresauts (short film)
  • 2013: Gamine (short film)
  • 2013: Zakaria (short film)
  • 2013: Blue is a warm color
  • 2015: I barely open my eyes
  • 2019: Une histoire d'amour et de désir (in progress)

scriptwriter

  • 2010: Tendid (short film)
  • 2010: Un Ange passe (short film)
  • 2012: Soubresauts (short film)
  • 2012: Offrande (short film)
  • 2012: Millefeuille
  • 2013: Gamine (short film)
  • 2013: Zakaria (short film)
  • 2015: I barely open my eyes
  • 2017: Vent du Nord (en: Northern Wind)
  • 2019: Une histoire d'amour et de désir (in progress)

actress

  • 1997: Tunisiennes
  • 2012: Millefeuille

Awards (selection)

  • 2010: Prix cininter - Un Ange passe - Festival du 1er court métrage de Pontault-Combault
  • 2010: Prix des femmes de Fersnes - Un Ange passe - Festival international de films de femmes de Créteil
  • 2012: Grand Prix - Soubresauts - Festival Premiers Plans d'Angers
  • 2012: Grand prix du jury - Soubresauts - Festival du Cinéma Méditerranéen de Tétouan
  • 2012: Birds Eye View Award - Soubresauts - Birds Eye View Film Festival, London
  • 2012: Prix Ismu - Soubresauts - Festival del Cinema Africano, d'Asia e America Latina of Milan
  • 2012: Best Short Film - Soubresauts - Verona International Film Festival
  • 2014: TIFF Award - Zakaria - Tangier International Film Festival
  • 2014: Prix à la qualité - Zakaria - Center national du cinéma et de l'image animée
  • 2014: Prix des Lycéens - Zakaria - Festival del Cinema Africano, d'Asia e America Latina of Milan
  • 2015: Etalon de bronze - Zakaria - FESPACO
  • 2015: Thomas Sankara Award - Zakaria - FESPACO
  • 2015: Royal Air Morocco Ibn Battuta Award - Zakaria - FESPACO
  • 2015: Tanit de bronze - As soon as I open my eyes - Carthage Film Festival
  • 2015: TV5 Monde Award - As soon as I open my eyes - Carthage Film Festival
  • 2015: FIPRESCI Prize - As soon as I open my eyes - Carthage Film Festival
  • 2015: Bayard d'or - I barely open my eyes - Festival international du film francophone de Namur
  • 2015: “Mention spécial” by the UGTT jury - As soon as I open my eyes - Carthage Film Festival
  • 2015: Best Newcomer Film - As soon as I open my eyes - French Film Days Tübingen-Stuttgart
  • 2015: Europa Cinemas Label Award - As soon as I open my eyes - Venice International Film Festival 2015
  • 2015: Muhr Award - As soon as I open my eyes - Dubai International Film Festival
  • 2016: Kering Foundation “Women in Motion Young Talent Award” - Cannes International Film Festival 2016
  • 2016: Best Film - Hardly Open My Eyes - East End Film Festival (EEFF) in London
  • 2016: Sir Peter Ustinov Prize - As soon as I open my eyes - Lucas
  • 2016: Chevalier de l'Ordre de la République
  • 2017: Best Screenplay - Vent du Nord - shared with Claude Le Pape and Walid Mattar - Carthage Film Festival

Nominations (selection)

literature

  • Jacqueline Siapno, Suad Joseph, Afsaneh Najmabadi, Julie Peteet, Seteney Shami - Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures: Methodologies, paradigms and sources . Brill 2003, ISBN 978-90-04-11380-0
  • Catalog Clermont Film Fest 2014 , Google Books page 128, accessed September 30, 2019
  • Catalog Clermont Film Fest 2016 , Google Books page 20, accessed September 30, 2019
  • Alessandra Speciale Festival Cinema Africano . Centro orientamento educativo, 2001, Volume 11, Google Books page 1978, accessed September 30, 2019
  • Near and Middle East documentation service: Selected bibliography of recent literature, Volume 31 . Das Referat, 2000, Google Books page 116, accessed September 30, 2019

Web links

Commons : Leyla Bouzid  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ JCC 2015 - Leyla Bouzid est la Reine du Palmarès, Mohamed Mouftakir est Tanit d'Or (fr). - Africiné , December 4, 2015 and onwards Author: WB JCC 2017: Le palmarès de la 28ème édition (fr). - Tunis Webdo , November 12, 2017, accessed September 30, 2019
  2. ^ Biography and filmography of Leyla Bouzid (fr). - Africultures and further on (as PDF) press kit: À peine j'ouvre les yeux. - trigon-film , February 2016 and further on Des compétences tunisiennes décorées des insignes de l'Ordre de la République (fr). - Le Temps – Tunisie , August 14, 2016 and furthermore 38è Festival International du Court-Métrage: Clermont-Ferrand 2016 (fr). - LeMagduCiné , accessed September 30, 2019
  3. ^ Author: Claire Diao Les yeux bien ouverts de Leyla Bouzid (fr). - Le Monde , December 1, 2015 and onwards Author: Laurent Djian À peine j'ouvre les yeux: Leyla Bouzid capte la fureur de la jeunesse tunisienne (fr). - l'express , December 23, 2015, accessed October 1, 2019
  4. ^ Biography and filmography of Walid Mattar (fr and en). - Africiné and further biography and filmography Ibrahim Letaïef (fr and en). - Africiné , accessed October 1, 2019
  5. ↑ FESPACO 2015 - Leyla Bouzid: “Zakaria” (en and fr). - African Women in Cinema Blog , February 15, 2015 and further on Author: Ulrich Sonnenschein Review of As I Open My Eyes - I barely open my eyes. - epd Film , September 23, 2016 and further on As I Open My Eyes in the running for an Oscar nomination (en). - LUX , September 26, 2016 and also author: Neila Driss La Tunisie disqualifiée de la course aux Oscars (fr). - Tunis Webdo , October 12, 2016 and further on Author: Fabien Lemercier Leyla Bouzid prête à tourner Une histoire d'amour et de désir (fr). - Cineuropa , September 20, 2019, accessed September 30, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Bouzid, Leyla
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bouzid, Leïla; Bouzid, Leila
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Tunisian film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Tunis