Imane Mesbahi Explained

Imane Mesbahi
Birth Date:	1964
Birth Place:	Tetouan
Nationality:	Moroccan
Alma Mater:	Cairo's Higher Institute of Cinema Ain Chams University
Occupation:	Actress . filmmaker

Imane Mesbahi (born 1964 in Tetouan) is a Moroccan actress and filmmaker.^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

Biography

As a child, Mesbahi starred in the first two feature films directed by her father, renowned filmmaker Abdellah Mesbahi. In the 1980s she directed several short films and studied directing at Cairo's Higher Institute of Cinema, and psychology at Ain Chams University. In 1994 she started making her first feature film, Paradis des pauvres, which was released eight years later.^{[5] [6] [7]}

She is currently General Secretary of the Moroccan Chamber of Film Distributors.^[8]

Filmography

Feature films

• Paradis des pauvres (2002)^[9]

Short films

• Traces sur l'eau (Traces on the Water)^{[10] [11]}
• Une femme dans le tourbillon de la vie (A Woman in the Whirl of Life)
• Une femme mal à l’aise (An Uneasy Woman)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Personnes Africultures : Mesbahi Imane. 2021-11-17. Africultures. fr-FR.
2. Web site: Festival national du film de Tanger: entretien avec la distributrice Imane Mesbahi. 2021-11-17. medi1news. en.
3. Web site: 2018-11-26. Abdellah Mesbahi et sa fille Imane : passion cinéma. 2021-11-17. VH Magazine. fr-FR.
4. Book: Armes, Roy. Dictionnaire des cinéastes africains de long métrage. 2008. KARTHALA Editions. 978-2-84586-958-5. fr.
5. Book: Hottell. Ruth A.. Noteworthy Francophone Women Directors: A Sequel. Pallister. Janis L.. 2011-09-16. Lexington Books. 978-1-61147-444-2. en.
6. Book: Armes, Roy. Postcolonial Images: Studies in North African Film. 2005. Indiana University Press. 978-0-253-21744-8. en.
7. Book: Variety International Film Guide. 2004. Andre Deutsch. 978-1-902049-96-0. en.
8. Web site:

   CENTRE CINEMATOGRAPHIQUE MAROCAIN ::

   . 2021-11-17. www.ccm.ma.
9. Book: Orlando, Valérie K.. Screening Morocco: Contemporary Film in a Changing Society. 2011-05-05. Ohio University Press. 978-0-89680-478-4. en.
10. Book: Hillauer, Rebecca. Encyclopedia of Arab Women Filmmakers. 2005. American Univ in Cairo Press. 978-977-424-943-3. en.
11. Book: Martin, Florence. Screens and Veils: Maghrebi Women's Cinema. 2011-10-13. Indiana University Press. 978-0-253-00565-6. en.