Sofia Alaoui
ActivitiesDirector, Screenwriter, Director of photography, Sound recordist, Foreign producer, Producer
SecteurCinéma
Represented byZelig
AgentVéronique Bouffard
Biography
French-Moroccan director and screenwriter Sofia Alaoui came to prominence with her short film So What if the Goats Die, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival in 2020 and the César Award for Best Short Fiction Film in 2021. Her debut feature, Animalia, a science-fiction film with a political slant, premiered at Sundance in 2023, where it was awarded the Special Jury Prize. Sofia Alaoui then moved into television series, and is currently working on a detective series, "Let the Earth Burn", as well as a second project in development with a streaming platform. At the same time, she is preparing two feature film projects: "Tarfaya", an apocalyptic thriller set in the Moroccan desert, and a first English-language film, adapted from a short story.
