Leïla Kilani
Born in 1970 in Casablanca.
Leïla Kilani is a Moroccan director and screenwriter.
She lives between Tangiers and Paris, where she studied economics, obtained a DEA (post-graduate diploma) in History and Civilisation of the Mediterranean and then prepared a thesis at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales.
She made her first documentaries in the 2000s, with a number of highly acclaimed films (Tanger le rêve des Brûleurs, in 2002, about would-be emigrants to Europe, D'ici et d'ailleurs, a documentary about industrial memory in France, and Nos lieux interdits in 2008) before directing Sur la planche, her first feature-length fiction film.
