NYA
a film by
Imene Ayadi
16 min /
Drama
France, Algeria
Taking place in Algerian suburbia in 1994, the story revolves around Anya — a seven-year-old girl who blissfully experiences her childhood without being aware of the turmoil caused by the civil war engulfing her country.
Her sole desire is for her father — a journalist away on an assignment — to come back in time for the Mouloud holiday. Nevertheless, the violence of the real world slowly encroaches upon her daily life, causing her childish innocence to waver.
Cast
- Melissa Benyahia
- Meriem Medjkane
- Amal Kateb
- Ghyzléne Ben Ali
Crew
- Screenwriter: Imene Ayadi
- DOP: Nader Chalhoub
- Editor: Tyliann Tondeur-Grozdanovitch
Production Company(ies):
Producer(s):
La Méridienne, Thala Films
Producer(s):
Pierre Herve, Marine Colomies, and Fayçal Hammoum
- Bejaia Film Festival, Algeria
- Maghreb Film Festival, Netherlands
- Les Nuits Méditerranéennes, France
- Trouville Off-Courts Film Festival, France
- Aix-en-Provence Tous Courts Short Film Festival, France
- Bahrain Film Festival, Bahrain
- Tripoli Film Festival, Lebanon
- Sharjah International Film Festival for Children and Youth, UAE
- FAME Short Film Festival, South Africa
- Tetova International Film, North Macedonia
- Alexandria Mediterranean Film Festival, Egypt
- Brussele's International Women Film Festival, Belgium
- Rabat International Author Film Festival, Morocco
- MENA Film Festival, Canada
- Malmö Arab Film Festival, Sweden
- Arab Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands
- Jury Prize at Alexandria Mediterranean Countries Film Festival
- Prix Grand Action at Les Nuits MED
- Best Film on the Representation of Women at In Her Eyes International Women Film Festival
