French Moroccan Filmmaker.

Myriam BAKIR is a Film Director, Screenwriter and Photographer.
She is known for "Samia", "Agadir-Bombay", "Mothers" (2020).

Myriam BAKIR was born in Paris of Moroccan parents. After studies at the Conservatoire Libre du Cinéma Français in Paris, then a training course in photography in the United States and professional experience in television in the West Indies, she directed three short films.
"Samia" with Neza Rahil, winner of the Audience Award at the Rencontres Cinématographiques de Meknes, and the prize for female interpretation at the Casablanca National Festival, is broadcast on Canal+.
In 2011, her first feature film "Agadir-Bombay" with Noufissa Benchehida, wins the prize for Best Actress at the Tangier National Film Festival. In this film about the place of prostitution in Morocco, it is always the position of women that the director defends. Today, her work is used as an advocacy tool for associations defending women's and children's rights. With the help of the Moroccan Ministry of National Education, it is regularly screened in schools.

With "Mothers" (2020), Myriam BAKIR signs her first documentary. The director refers to reality, that of Mahjouba Edbouche, a woman committed to single mothers in Morocco. The film confronts her action, the fate of these women and the law that condemns them.

FILMOGRAPHY (extraits)
(2020) MÈRES - MOTHERS | France / Morocco - documentary, 1h02 minutes
(2011) Agadir-Bombay | first feature film
(1998) Lettres à Elise
(1998) Samia
(1993) Demain on tourne


Source :
https://primed.tv/meres/
www.film-documentaire.fr/4DACTION/w_liste_generique/C_109066_F
Updated by Thierno Dia, on 19 July 2022