Leyla Bouzid

Leyla Bouzid is a Franco-Tunisian screenwriter and director, born in 1984. She grew up in Tunisia before moving to France to study literature at the Sorbonne, followed by cinema at La Fémis.

After several short films which received acclaim at festivals (including Soubresauts and Zakaria), her debut feature À peine j’ouvre les yeux was presented and awarded at the Venice Film Festival in 2015.

Her second feature, Une histoire d’amour et de désir, was selected to close the 60th edition of the Critics’ Week at the Cannes Film Festival in 2021.