Meryam Joobeur at Berlinale 2024 Ausschnitt

Meryam Joobeur is a Tunisian Canadian film director."Portrait de Regard: Meryam Joobeur"
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'', March 16, 2019. She is most noted for her 2018 short film ''

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(Ikhwène)'', which won the

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at the

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"'Green Book' boosts awards season prospects with TIFF audience award win"
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'', September 16, 2018. and was nominated for the

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at the

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."Montreal-based filmmaker Meryam Joobeur gets Oscar nomination"

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Montreal, January 13, 2020. Raised in

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and the

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, she is currently based in

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, where she is a graduate of the Cinema-Communications program at

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and the

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. Prior to ''Brotherhood'', she wrote and directed the short films '' Gods, Weeds and Revolutions'' (2012) and ''Born in the Maelstrom'' (2017). In 2020, Joobeur was one of the recipients of the 2020 Top 25 Canadian Immigrant Awards. Her debut feature film went into development in 2021, with the working title ''Motherhood''.Frédéric Bouchard
"« Motherhood » de Meryam Joobeur est sélectionné au Sundance Screenwriter’s Lab"
''Lien Multimédia'', January 13, 2021. Joobeur participated in the Sundance Screenwriters' Lab at the

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, where she was awarded the $10,000 Sundance Institute/NHK Award toward the film's production.André Duchesne
"Sundance remet une bourse à la cinéaste montréalaise Meryam Joobeur"
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'', February 3, 2021. The film is slated to premiere at the

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, as '' Who Do I Belong To (Mé el Aïn)''.Scott Roxborough
"Rooney Mara, Isabelle Huppert, Gael Garcia Bernal Films Set for 2024 Berlinale"
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'', January 22, 2024.

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