| Jérôme Cohen-Olivar | |
| Birth Date: | 1964 |
| Awards: | Prize of the Ecumenical Jury 'Midnight Orchestra' |
| Notable Works: | Susan Susan |
| Known For: | Kandisha |
| Nationality: | Moroccan |
| Citizenship: | Moroccan |
Jérôme Cohen-Olivar (born 1964) is a Moroccan-French film director, best known for Kandisha (2008), a fantasy film inspired by the myth of Aicha Kandicha.
Cohen-Olivar mostly grew up in Morocco, where he made movies on super 8mm film, before moving to Los Angeles. Susan Susan, his first short film, was a satire about secret immigration to the United States, bought by Disney for about $300,000.[1]
The Midnight Orchestra, a comedy based around the story of a man travelling to Morocco to revive his father's orchestra, examined the experiences of Jews leaving Morocco.[2] It won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at Montreal World Film Festival in 2015.[3]