Jillali Ferhati

Jillali Ferhati was born in 1948 in Aït Ouahi, near Khemisset, and grew up in Tangier. He spent ten years in Paris, where he obtained a degree in sociology and took part, from 1969 to 1971, in the activities of the Théâtre international, before turning to cinema. In 1982 he founded his production company, Heracles Production, and went on making films into the 2020s; the Marrakech Festival awarded him the Golden Star in 2018, according to Le360. He said he dreamed, according to Yabiladi, of a film that would be entirely silent.

In the catalogue 1

• CinemaA Breach in the Wallجرحة في الحائطJillali Ferhati · 1978Cinema