Title : Night watchwomen
Director : Nina Khada
Duration : 23
Year : 2024
Genre : Fiction
Country : France
Synopsis: Twenty-year-old Nora accompanies her grandmother's body to Algeria. Once there, her family discourages her from attending the funeral. Trapped between the four walls of the family home where she watches over her grandmother's body, she is enraged. Silently.
Nina Khada
Nina Khada is a French-Algerian director and editor born in France. In 2016, she directed her first short documentary about her grandmother, Fatima, using French colonial archives. The film was selected for some 50 festivals and won several awards. His second film, I bit my tongue, is an encounter with the inhabitants of Tunis around the quest for their lost language. It won the Poulain d'argent for documentary film at the Ouagadougou FESPACO. As an editor, she works with Hassen Ferhani, Karim Moussaoui, Fayçal Hammoum, Claire Juge, José Vieira and others on documentary films.
Go Short - International Short Film Festival Nijmegen | 2025
Nuits Med | Special mention for acting - Sonia Faidi | 2025
Flickers Rhode Island | 2025
Filem'on | 2025
Fameck Arab Film Festival | 2025
Harleem Maghreb Film Festival | 2025
Ici Vietnam Cinéma Festival | 2025
Entretodos | 2025
Cinémas d'Afrique du Pays d'Apt | 2025
Film Court de St Pierre - La Réunion | 2025
Timimoun ISFF | Best Actress Award | 2025
Algiers IFF | 2025
Carthage Film Festival | 2025
Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival | 2026
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