NYA

NYA

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Production year: 2024

Duration: 16:00:00

Produced by: Pierre Herve, Marine Colomies, and Fayçal Hammoum

Synopsis: Taking place in Algerian suburbia in 1994, the story revolves around Anya — a seven-year-old girl who blissfully experiences her childhood without being aware of the turmoil caused by the civil war engulfing her country. Her sole desire is for her father — a journalist away on an assignment — to come back in time for the Mouloud holiday. Nevertheless, the violence of the real world slowly encroaches upon her daily life, causing her childish innocence to waver.

Director: Imene Ayadi

Nationality: Algeria

Director Bio: Hailing from Algeria, Imene Ayadi was born to filmmaker parents. At the age of 17, she traveled to Nice, France, to study filmmaking at the Higher School of Audiovisual Production. Soon after her graduation, she worked as an assistant director on many short films, documentaries, and series. Then, in 2019, she directed her first short film THE OLD KALBELOUZ with Ahmed BenaÃ¯ssa in the main role.