Asmae El Moudir

Asmae El Moudir


Morocco

Biography

Asmae El Moudir is a Moroccan film director, screenwriter and producer. She studied at La Fémis in Paris and holds a master’s degree in production from the Superior Institute of Information and Communication in Rabat and a bachelor’s degree in documentary cinema from the Abdelmalek Essaâdi University in Tetouan. She also graduated in 2010 from the ISCA. After making a number of short films, like The Colours of Silence (2012), Thank God it’s Friday (2013) or Rough Cut (2015), in 2020 she completed the mid-length documentary The Postcard. The Mother of All Lies, her first feature film, won the awards for best director at Un Certain Regard and the Golden Eye for best documentary at the Cannes Film Festival. The film represented Morocco in the race for the Oscar for Best International Feature Film.

Seminci - Semana Internacional de Cine de Valladolid

Actress

Documentaries
2023

The Mother of All Lies

2020

The Postcard - narrator

Director

Documentaries
2023

The Mother of All Lies

2020

The Postcard

Screenwriter

Documentaries
2023

The Mother of All Lies

Producer

Documentaries
2023

The Mother of All Lies

Editor

Documentaries
2023

The Mother of All Lies

Camerawoman

Documentaries
2020

The Postcard