Holy Fatma
With a Master’s degree in cinema in hand, Holy Fatma traveled the world before becoming a set decorator in Hollywood. Along the way, she forged a strong visual identity mirroring her imagination – extravagant, unsettling, inhabited by strange yet endearing characters – influenced by the likes of Fellini, Burton, and Todd Browning.
From Gérardmer to Hollywood, her first short film Please Love Me Forever found success on the festival circuit. Funded by the CNC, the film won several international awards, including Best Short at the prestigious Screamfest in Los Angeles.
An active member of the association 1000 Visages (founded by filmmaker Houda Benyamina), Holy Fatma is currently developing her first feature film, Zahra and the Dead.
Zahra et les morts
Groupe Ouest Développement 2017, Sélection Annuelle 2018
In a small village, eight-year-old Zahra lives a happy childhood with her parents Anouar and Yasmin. But everything changes when she survives a car crash taking her father’s life. Left disfigured, Zahra is shunned by her classmates, and her grieving mother is unable to care for her. To escape her loneliness, Zahra begins to visit her father’s grave and there discovers a passage to the land of the dead. She ventures in, hoping to find her father and bring him back. Father and daughter are soon reunited. But when Zahra realizes he can never return to the living, she chooses to stay with him—even if it means condemning the world of the dead, which is growing more and more frightening…
