Simone Bitton

Simone Bitton (born 1955) is a French-Moroccan documentary filmmaker. Her films have been nominated for or won the César Award, the Marseille Festival of Documentary Film Award, and the Sundance Film Festival, Special Jury Prize (for Mur).

Simone Bitton
Born1955 (age 6566)
OccupationDirector, Producer, Writer

Personal life

Bitton was born the daughter of a Jewish jeweller in Morocco. She describes herself as a Mizrahi Jew.[1] After settling in France, where she now mainly lives she graduated from the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques in 1981.[2][3]

Filmography

  • 1981 : Solange Giraud, née Tache
  • 1997 : Palestine/israel, histoire d’une terre
  • 1998 : Ben Barka, l’équation marocaine
  • 1998 : Mahmoud Darwich
  • 2000 : L'Attentat
  • 2001 : Citizen Bishara
  • 2004 : Mur
  • 2009 : Rachel

References

  1. Director's bio Archived 2012-03-08 at the Wayback Machine Wall the movie. Retrieved on 2 July 2010
  2. French Protest of Israeli Raid Reaches Wide Audience New York Times. 12 June 2010
  3. WALL The Middle East Magazine. November 2004


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