Halima Ouardiri is a

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film director, screenwriter, and producer.Ismaël Houdassine
"Une vie de chien avec « Clebs » de Halima Ouardiri"

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, February 21, 2020.

Career

Ouardiri began pursuing a career in the arts, specifically in film, in the 2000s. She first garnered acclaim for her 2010 short film '' Mokhtar'', which was a shortlisted

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nominee for

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at the

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in 2011, and her 2019 short film '' Mutts (Clebs)'', which won a Crystal Bear for best short film in the Generation 14Plus program at the

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in 2020. Born in

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to a

mother and a Moroccan father, Ouardiri moved to

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to study film at the

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. In addition to her own films, she was credited as a producer on Kalina Bertin's 2017 documentary film '' Manic''. In 2018, she was one of eight women filmmakers selected for the

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's Apprenticeship for Women Directors program, alongside

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, Kirsten Carthew, Alicia K. Harris, Allison White,

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, and Kristina Wagenbauer. Ouardiri's first narrative feature film, ''The Camel Driving School'', entered production in 2020. As of 2024, the film has not yet been released. Her short film ''The Skates (Les Patins)'' is slated to screen in the Short Cuts program at the

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.Anthony D'Alessandro
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'', August 9, 2023.

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