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Izza Génini (born 1942) is a Moroccan movie producer and director. She has lived and worked in Paris, France since 1960. Biography. Izza Génini was born in Casablanca, Morocco, in 1942 to a Jewish family.
Izza Génini est une réalisatrice, productrice et distributrice de cinéma marocaine née à Casablanca en 1942 . Biographie. Depuis son arrivée en France en 1960, elle vit à Paris 1 . Après des études de lettres et de langues étrangères à la Sorbonne et à l’ École des Langues Orientales, elle s’engage dans le cinéma.
Izza Génini was born in 1942 in Casablanca, Morocco. She is a director and producer, known for Nûba of Gold and Light (2007), Songs for a Shabbat (1989) and Embroidered Canticles (1989).
Documentary was an unpopular form of film-making in an already meagre film industry dominated by men in Morocco in the 1970s and 1980s. Together with Farida Bourquia, who made television documentaries, Izza Génini was the first Moroccan woman truly devoted to the documentary.
Mar 10, 2024 · Program. Born and raised to Darija-speaking parents and Francophone older siblings in Casablanca, Morocco, Izza Génini moved to Paris, France, at the age of seventeen. She later returned to Morocco to make more than a dozen documentary films.
Sep 17, 2020 · A pioneering woman in Moroccan cinema, Izza Génini’s practise sits solely within the realm of narrative documentary. As someone who was born in Morocco, grew up in France and returned there as an adult, her films grapple with themes such as diasporic identity and traditional Moroccan heritage, particularly focusing on the music of the country.
Most of her documentaries deal with women performers, and the very particular role these performers take up in the wider societal context. This chapter concentrates on Génini’s first of her more than twenty films, Aita (1987) and her last one, La Nûba d’Or et de Lumière (2007).
