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
- Positively Different SFF | 2026
- Festival de Louxor du Film Africain (LAFF) | 2026
- BUFF Malmö | 2026
- Tout Court Gisors | 2026
- La Caravane des cinémas d’Afrique | 2026
- Internationales Frauen FF Dortmund+Köln | 2026
- Imedghassen IFF | Prix de la Meilleure actrice pour Sonia Faidi | 2026
- FCAT – Cinema Africano de Tarifa | 2026
- Festival de la littérature et du cinéma de la femme Saïda | 2026
- Cinema Africano Verona | 2026
- Cinema Jove de Valencia | 2026
- Cinémas d’Afrique – Lausanne | 2026
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