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Aïcha Belkhodja swiss/tunisian half cat, half human filmmaker

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Cocky King

Short documentary created during journalism program at the University of Montreal, co-directed with Morgane Gelly and Esther Thommet. Charli Deville is a young Drag King. Through drag he questions the gender norms of masculinity. Shot in Montreal, Canada, in december 2018.

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// WORK IN PROGRESS // 

Project on a fishermen’s island in Tunisia. Following the struggle of a woman to protect it. Filming started in summer 2018, Tunisia

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// WORK IN PROGRESS //

Initially was making images for a start-up, during the presidential elections of 2018 in Sierra Leone. It is now part of a personal project. Sierra Leone, 2018

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Sacralis

Short promotion video for the concert “Sacralis”. The Association Tam Tams presents a concert-conference asking the question “what is religious singing?”. Shot in Geneva, Switzerland, in november 2017.

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Mariah’s Tinder Reel

Short comedy film made during the workshop LanClub2 co-directed with Margret Gyda Johannsdottir. This is what we imagined Mariah Carey’s dating reel would be like. Shot in Geneva, Switzerland in June 2017. 

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LanClub’s website HERE

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Eva 2

Short comedy film that is the sequel to EVA made in 2016. We found her ! She has not lost her smile and still plays awfully well. Shot in Paris, France, in 2017.

you can watch the movie HERE

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Eva

Short comedy film made in 24h with Laure-Anne Tchen @la-tc for the 2016 Biffl Festival. It’s about Eva, a street violinist that I wanted to film, but sadly couldn’t find. Shot in Paris, France, in 2016.

news : Eva was shown in Trashxploitation festival 2017 in Paris and won the “award of best acting miniature” !!!

you can watch the movie HERE 

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Aquarium 

Short film made during my third and last year at EICAR. The movie was selected to be shown at the Festival des Courts d’Ecoles de Cinéma 2016. Sophie has to take care of her father and their plant. As her brother comes back home, she receives news from her dream job and has a difficult decision to make. Shot in Brittany, France, in 2016.

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Ecole de danse Julie Duruisseau “Nous sommes prêts”

Promotion video for the dance school Julie Duruisseau. I tried to show the lightness and grace that ballet expresses, and the beauty of what seems so effortless in this discipline. Shot in Aubonne, Switzerland in 2015.

you can watch the movie HERE

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Une affaire de pros

Little commercial made in my second year at EICAR for the charity Rire Médecin, who brings clowns to children’s hospitals. As a clown enters the child’s room, medical artifacts become somehow magical. Shot in Paris, France, in 2015.

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Sweet Sixteen Minou

Short movie made for the 16th birthday of Mathieu Fasel’s old and very fat cat named Minou. She is the sunshine of my life which is why she deserves all those diamonds. Showed the movie for the 2015 BIFFL festival. Movie shot in Switzerland in 2014/2015.

watch the movie over HERE

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La Récré

Prevention commercial against child abuse, made during my first year at EICAR. It won the “Jury’s Award” at the end of our school year’s screening.Two kids, comparing their scars during recess, until it isn’t so funny anymore… Shot in Paris, France, in 2014.

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Disko di Rumah

Music video for the band Safari, made in my first year of film school at EICAR, screenplay by Qashiratu Taqarrabie. A mother forbids her son to get out with his friends, so he turns their house into a disco. Shot in Paris, France, in 2014.

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IDOLE

This is the teaser of the short film IDOLE, co-written and co-directed with Lina Poulet. Lou receives anonymous love messages and starts having suspicions that they come from one of her friends. Shot in Paris, France in 2013.

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Warm Winter 

Music video, following the little joys of winter and the beginning of a long distance relationship. Shot between Switzerland and France in 2012.

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Projet “Concours Nagasaki, un monde pour la paix”

One of my first projects, starring my cousin, Inès Abdesselem, for the competition “Nagasaki, un monde pour la paix”. Shot in Tunisia in 2010.

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