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Director
Izza Génini
Izza Génini was born in Casablanca, Morocco, in 1942 to a Jewish family. After studying literature and foreign languages at the Sorbonne and the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales, both in Paris, Génini decided to enter cinema. In 1973, she founded SOGEAV for the distribution of French films in French speaking African nations, distribution of African films abroad, and the production of films El Hal and Transes, the latter of the two directed by Ahmed El Maanouni.
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Martin Scorsese would later remaster this film in his World Cinema Project, with an interview with Génini included on the disk. In 1987, Génini began the production of a documentary series on traditional Moroccan music called Maroc, corps et âme, or Morocco, Body and Soul, containing fifteen parts.
Known for
Trances1982
Blood Wedding1977
Malhoune1989
Pour le Plaisir des Yeux1997
My Thursday Souk2022
Aïta1988
Gnaouas1989
Rhythms of Marrakech1989
Filmography
- 2022My Thursday SoukFilmHerself, Director, Writer
- 2007A Nuba of Gold and LightFilmWriter, Director
- 1999Drums BeatingFilmDirector, Writer
- 1997Pour le Plaisir des YeuxFilmDirector
- 1997MoussemFilmDirector, Writer
- 1994Return to Oulad MoumenFilmDirector
- 1993Vibrations in Upper AtlasFilmDirector
- 1993NUPTIALES EN MOYEN ATLASFilmDirector
- 1989MalhouneFilmDirector
- 1989GnaouasFilmDirector
- 1989Rhythms of MarrakechFilmDirector
- 1989Des Luths et DélicesFilmDirector
- 1989Les GnaouasFilmDirector
- 1988AïtaFilmDirector
- 1988Hymns of PraiseFilmDirector
- 1988Aïta (Le Cri)FilmDirector
- 1982TrancesFilmProducer
- 1977Blood WeddingFilm