Fatma Zohra Zamoum


Fatma Zohra Zamoum is a Franco-Algerian writer, filmmaker and educator.

Biography

Zamoun was born in Bordj Menaïel in the north of Algeria. After attending the Fine Arts School in Algiers, she went to Paris where she graduated in Cinematography and Audiovisual Studies from the Sorbonne in 1995. She divides her time between Algiers and Paris, pursuing her principal interests, painting, fiction and the cinema.
Z'har is Zamoun's first feature film, depicting scenes from the violence Algiers experienced in the 1990s. In 2005, she directed the short fiction film La Pelote de Laine and has also authored several books including Comment j'ai fumé tous mes livres. In 2011, she directed and produced a second feature film Kedach Ethabni which tells the story of how little Adel copes with a period spent with his grandmother after his parents break up.
She directed and produced since then "Azib Zamoum, A story About Land", in 2014 And in 2019, she achieved a low budget fiction film named PARKOUR and an unreleased documentary: Body + Art.

Works