Khalil Cherti
Khalil Cherti is a self-taught writer-director who learned the craft by making institutional films, commercials, and trailers, which have won awards at international festivals like the Promax BDA Awards. In 2009, he directed and self-produced his first medium-length film, The Great Wall of Qin (selected at the Clermont-Ferrand Festival, received a CNC Quality Award, etc.). In 2011, he created a web series, Lolicats, which won Best Web Series at the La Rochelle Fiction Festival. In 2014, his second medium-length film, Wherever the Pain May Come From—produced by Kazak Productions—screened at many festivals, including Locarno, Clermont-Ferrand (where it received a special mention), and won several other awards.
In 2021, he was seeking funding for his new medium-length film, No Man Is an Island, produced by Qui Vive!
Le Groupe Ouest c'est comme un "atelier de créateurs". C'est-à-dire que c'est à la fois artisanal et très concret, il y a des techniques, des savoir-faire, et en même temps, il y a l'espace pour l'inspiration...
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Zineb
Sélection Annuelle 2021
ZINEB lives in a state housing complex. Her mother died three years ago. ZINEB is 32, single, jobless, in debt, and estranged from her ex-con father. She’s responsible for her grandmother, whose new obsession is turning the parking lot below their building into a vegetable garden : her future burial ground. Her younger brother calms his violent outbursts by filming gore videos. ZINEB dreams of just one thing : getting out. She has a plan, the “1-euro insulation” scam. She knows just the right shady guy to help her pull it off : her dad. But once things are in motion, ZINEB is overwhelmed and her scam morphs into a green business spreading through the neighbourhood. For the first time, ZINEB feels proud of herself. She even considers staying. But ZINEB’s fate, like that of her family—and of the planet—requires more than a fresh start. It demands confronting and healing the failures and voids of the past.
