Mounia Meddour

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Mounia Meddour (born 15 May 1978) is a Franco-Algerian film director.

Biography

Meddour's father is the Algerian director Azzedine Meddour^[1] and her mother comes from Russia. She studied in a journalism school, then trained in cinema and audiovisual in France. She completed a diploma at the European Centre Of Training Production Film (CEFPF) in fiction film directing in 2002 then a second diploma in documentary filmmaking in 2004.^[2]

She then directed several documentaries, such as Particules élémentaires^[3] in 2007, La Cuisine en héritage^[4] in 2009, and in 2011 Cinéma algérien, un nouveau souffle a documentary on the new generation of Algerian directors which emerge, despite the absence of funding. That same year, she directed her first short fiction film, Edwige.^[5]

Finally, in 2019, her first feature fiction film,