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Sofia Djama is an Algerian film director. Her 2017 feature film debut, The Blessed , won three awards at the Venice Film Festival, including the Brian Award, given to the film which "best champions human rights, democracy, pluralism and freedom of thought", and the Lina Mangiacapre Award for a film which "changes the image of women in the cinema".
Jun 17, 2024 · The film’s writer and director Sofia Djama was born in Oran and she later moved to Algiers to complete her bachelor’s degree in literature. In the early 2000’s she wrote a collection of short stories in which Algeria was the man protagonist of each plot.
Sofia Djama. Director: The Blessed. Sofia Djama was born in Oran, Algeria. and grew up in Béjaïa. In 1999, she went to Algiers to study letters and foreign languages, the city which she settled in later.
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Born in Oran in 1982, Sofia Djama is an Algerian scriptwriter and director. In the early 2000s, after studying literature at the University of Algiers she devoted herself to writing shorts stories. Algiers, where she lives then, becomes a full-fledged character of her work.
Sofia Djama - Eye to Eye. The 3 Women from Kabul. From Kabul to Algiers, the fantasy of the West. Sofia Djama began to write short stories. Algiers was to serve as the main protagonist of each plot. Limply One Saturday Morning, an adaptation of one of them, was her first short film awarded a prize at Clermont Ferrand Film Festival.
Aug 17, 2021 · Director, Sofia Djama, elucidated to The New Arab: “I did not want to speak about the Black Decade, I wanted to focus more on its aftermath and the enduring trauma that it has left us with.” Born and raised in Algeria, Djama spent her teenage years during the peak of violence.
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Sofia Djama: I’m Algerian, my name is Sofia Djama and I was born in Oran, which is a large city in western Algeria by the sea. I grew up in Bougie, which is also a seaside town, and I live in Algiers, always by the sea.
