Leila Chaibi

Leila Chaibi

Biography

After working several years as a camerawoman for journalism (France O, Nesma (Tunisia), Al Jazeera, MBC Egypt, Unicef US, etc.), Leïla Chaïbi began working for cinema. She started as a camerawoman for fiction, documentaries and magazines.
Since 2010, she has been developing her own film projects. Living in Tunis for a few years, she is interested in the question of identity in the arabic world. LA BRÛLURE, her first short documentary, paints the portrait of illegal immigrants who disappeared at sea, it later became a medium-length film, TOUS BRÛLÉS. Her film LA MAISON DES HOMMES, is an inventory of prisons in Tunisia. She then co-directed LE VERROU, a film about the magic ritual of the tasfih that aims to protect young girls' virginity. GARDIEN DES MONDES is her second feature length film.

Filmography

Harga (2010): Editing, Camera, Direction

GARDIEN DES MONDES (2022): Direction