RAJA AMARI

Jury Member

Raja Amari was born in Tunis, Tunisia. After acquiring a master’s degree in French literature from the University of Tunis, she graduated from La Fémis, the prestigious film school in France. Her first feature film, Satin Rouge (2002), premiered at the 52nd Berlin International Film Festival. Her second film, Buried Secrets (2009), was presented in the Official Selection of the 66th Venice International Film Festival, as well as screening at the MoMA and various other film festivals. In 2014, she directed Tunisian Spring, a television movie for Arte Télévision. Her latest fiction Foreign Body (2016) had its world premiere at the 41st Toronto International Film Festival. In 2019, Amari became a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. In 2020, she directed her latest film She Had a Dream, a documentary produced by Cinétévé and Arte Télévision. Amari was named President of the Jury at the Gan Foundation for Cinema in France.

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