Zakia Tahri, also known as Zakia Bouchaâla (born 1963) is a French-based filmmaker and actress of Moroccan descent.
Life
Zakia Tahiri was born in
Lille
Lille (, ; ; ; ; ) is a city in the northern part of France, within French Flanders. Positioned along the Deûle river, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France Regions of France, region, the Prefectures in F ...
.
She acted in the French war film ''
Fort Saganne
''Fort Saganne'' is a 1984 French war film directed by Alain Corneau and starring Gérard Depardieu, Philippe Noiret, Catherine Deneuve, and Sophie Marceau. Based on the 1980 novel of the same name by Louis Gardel, the film is about a soldier ...
'' (1984), and played the heroine in
Farida Benlyazid
Farida Benlyazid (born March 18, 1948, Tangier, Morocco) is a Moroccan scriptwriter, producer, production manager, novelist, and director. She began working in the field of cinema and cinematic production in the seventies. According to Sandra Gay ...
'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
''In Search of My Wife's Husband'' (French: ''À la recherche du mari de ma femme'') is a 1993 Moroccan comedy film directed by Mohamed Abderrahman Tazi and written by Farida Belyazid. It was screened at multiple national and international film f ...
'' (1993).
Her husband is the Algerian filmmaker
Ahmed Bouchaâla
Ahmad () is an Arabic male given name common in most parts of the Muslim world. Other English spellings of the name include Ahmed. It is also used as a surname.
Etymology
The word derives from the root ( ḥ-m-d), from the Arabic (), from ...
. 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).
Zakia Tahri's 2009 comedy ''Number One'' examined gender relations, and particularly the performance of
masculinity
Masculinity (also called manhood or manliness) is a set of attributes, behaviors, and roles generally associated with men and boys. Masculinity can be theoretically understood as Social construction of gender, socially constructed, and there i ...
, in Morocco after the reformed
Moudawana.
[Jimia Boutouba]
The Moudawana Syndrome: Gender Trouble in Contemporary Morocco
''Research in African Literatures'', Vol. 45, No. 1, Spring 2014, pp.24-38.
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
External links
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1963 births
Living people
Moroccan actresses
Moroccan film directors
Moroccan women film directors