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Dounia by Zaida Ghorab-Volta. France, 1997, 17 min, 35mm
Tinker Auditorium, French Institute/Alliance Française
55 East 59th Street
New York, NY 10022
Dounia is the 20-year-old daughter of an Algerian couple living in France. One morning after her night shift at the hospital, she finds her father waiting at home for her. He is drunk and forbids her to go back to work, but Dounia refuses to give in...
Followed by: Where Fig Trees Grow (Rue des Figuiers), by Yasmina Yahiaoui. France, 2005, 82 min, 35mm
Sun, Nov 11, 2:00 P.M.
Filmmaker's Biography
Born in 1966, Zaida Ghorab-Volta graduated with a degree in film studies from the Université Paris VII in 1986 and has built a rich career working as an actor, writer and director in film and theater. She wrote and directed the short fiction film Souviens-toi de moi in 1996 and codirected Le Manège du métro Saint-Paul with Gilles Volta in 1997. She has acted in many films, including Romain Goupil’s Sa vie à elle (1996) and André Téchiné’s Les Innocents. She directed three films in 1997—Dounia, Chantal and On s’aime, on se donne la main—and her first feature, Laisse un peu d’amour, in 1998, Followed by: Never Been to London (1999), Vattelot-sur-Mer (1999), Jeunesse dorée (2001), Nationale 1 (codirected with Eve Heinrich, 2002) and Marie et le loup (2003).
Festivals and Awards
- Festival Côté Court, Pantin, France, 1997
- Festival International Cinéma Méditerranéen Montpellier (Cinemed), 1997
- Images d’Ailleurs, Paris, 1997
- Festival Tous Courts, Aix-en-Provence, 1997
- Aye Aye Film Festival, Nancy, France, 1997
- Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, 1997
- DaKino International Film Festival, Bucharest, 1997
- Dublin International Film Festival, 1997
- Festival du Cinéma Francophone, Moncton, Canada, 1997
- Siena Film Festival, 1997
- Vues d’Afrique, Montreal, 1997
- Festival International du Film d’Amiens, 1997
- Festival International du Film Francophone de Namur, Belgium, 1998
Credits
Cast: Zaida Ghorab-Volta, Zahra Benaissa, Cherif Cherfi
Writer: Zaida Ghorab-Volta
Producer: Nathalie Mesuret
Cinematographers: Emmanuelle le Fur, Hélène Louvart
Editor: Hélène Aubert
Sound: André Rigaut
Print Source
Sunday Morning Productions
25, rue Michel le Comte
75003 Paris
France
Tel: +33 1 42 74 54 37
Fax: +33 1 42 74 47 60
Email: sunday@sundaymp.fr
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