Saâd Chraïbi

Directing

Saâd Chraïbi

Born

2019-07-27 (7)

Place of birth

Fès, Morocco

Known for

Directing

Credits

12 titles

Saâd Chraïbi (Arabic: سعد الشرايبي) is a Moroccan film director and screenwriter born on July 27, 1952, in Fez. He has directed numerous films and documentaries dealing with Moroccan society and history, particularly the colonial period and the "Years of Lead," as well as the status of women in Morocco. An activist and intellectual, he has written numerous articles and participated in conferences around the world on film. Saâd Chraïbi is the brother of director Omar Chraïbi. After a first marriage during which he had two sons, he remarried in 1998 to Moroccan actress Mouna Fettou (who appears in many of his films), with whom he has a son. They divorced in July 2005. From 1968 to 1970, Saâd…

Known for

Jawhara : Jail Girl poster
8.0

Jawhara has grown in prison after the rape of her mother, Safia, and has lived for six years behind bars by her mother's side. Through her innocent vision, Jawhara grew up looking and watching the world of families telling the story that brought her mother together with her alleged father Saeed. Saeed and Safiya lived together a period of youth marked by enthusiasm and ideal values. Inhuman living conditions. Jewel's search for the truth of her mother and father's story leads her to tragedy...

Jawhara : Jail Girl

2003

Fabula poster
NR

Fatema, the script-girl, loves Farid, the actor, who, in turn, loves Siham, the actress, who loves the producer who loves nobody but himself and the money he makes. A real mess of love and unfulfilled dreams.

Fabula

1996

Women ... and Women poster
7.5

The story of four Moroccan women who reunite after a period of estrangement. Their happy facades mask a lot of misery and pain, caused by divorce and betrayals as one of them discovers that the man she loves is cheating on her with one of her closest friends.

Women ... and Women

1998

No artwork available
NR

18-year-old Hafsa is at an age when anything is possible. When life and life's choices are open to you. Her grandfather, her mentor, an outstanding musician, is living out his last days, stunned by death. Lhaj Allal wants more than anything to use his last moments to make Hafsa his worthy musical heir.

Le silence des violons

2024

Demande D’Emploi poster
NR

Demande d’Emploi is the story of three young Moroccans from working-class neighborhoods, graduates and unemployed, looking for work, but also a love story in the background.

Demande D’Emploi

2005

Atash poster
9.0

In southern Morocco in 1954, an old man and a young man cooperate to restore water to a wasteland.

Atash

2001

Behind the camera

Jawhara : Jail Girl poster
8.0

Jawhara has grown in prison after the rape of her mother, Safia, and has lived for six years behind bars by her mother's side. Through her innocent vision, Jawhara grew up looking and watching the world of families telling the story that brought her mother together with her alleged father Saeed. Saeed and Safiya lived together a period of youth marked by enthusiasm and ideal values. Inhuman living conditions. Jewel's search for the truth of her mother and father's story leads her to tragedy...

Jawhara : Jail Girl

2003

Jawhara : Jail Girl poster
8.0

Jawhara has grown in prison after the rape of her mother, Safia, and has lived for six years behind bars by her mother's side. Through her innocent vision, Jawhara grew up looking and watching the world of families telling the story that brought her mother together with her alleged father Saeed. Saeed and Safiya lived together a period of youth marked by enthusiasm and ideal values. Inhuman living conditions. Jewel's search for the truth of her mother and father's story leads her to tragedy...

Jawhara : Jail Girl

2003

Fabula poster
NR

Fatema, the script-girl, loves Farid, the actor, who, in turn, loves Siham, the actress, who loves the producer who loves nobody but himself and the money he makes. A real mess of love and unfulfilled dreams.

Fabula

1996

Women ... and Women poster
7.5

The story of four Moroccan women who reunite after a period of estrangement. Their happy facades mask a lot of misery and pain, caused by divorce and betrayals as one of them discovers that the man she loves is cheating on her with one of her closest friends.

Women ... and Women

1998

No artwork available
NR

18-year-old Hafsa is at an age when anything is possible. When life and life's choices are open to you. Her grandfather, her mentor, an outstanding musician, is living out his last days, stunned by death. Lhaj Allal wants more than anything to use his last moments to make Hafsa his worthy musical heir.

Le silence des violons

2024

No artwork available
NR

18-year-old Hafsa is at an age when anything is possible. When life and life's choices are open to you. Her grandfather, her mentor, an outstanding musician, is living out his last days, stunned by death. Lhaj Allal wants more than anything to use his last moments to make Hafsa his worthy musical heir.

Le silence des violons

2024

Demande D’Emploi poster
NR

Demande d’Emploi is the story of three young Moroccans from working-class neighborhoods, graduates and unemployed, looking for work, but also a love story in the background.

Demande D’Emploi

2005

Demande D’Emploi poster
NR

Demande d’Emploi is the story of three young Moroccans from working-class neighborhoods, graduates and unemployed, looking for work, but also a love story in the background.

Demande D’Emploi

2005

Atash poster
9.0

In southern Morocco in 1954, an old man and a young man cooperate to restore water to a wasteland.

Atash

2001

Les 3M Histoire Inachevée poster
NR

The3M: Malika, Moïse and Mathieu are friends, all born in the same neighbourhood of Casablanca, of different religions. A strong friendship links them. but, political events set them apart. They meet again and try to maintain their bonds.

Les 3M Histoire Inachevée

2019

No artwork available
NR

Just after events of September 11th, 2001 in the United States, a number of Arabic / Muslims felt obliged to leave the country because of subjected harassments. This is a tale of a Morroccan family who decide to return to their homeland.

Islamour

—

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Chronicle of a Normal Life

1991