Laïla Marrakchi

Laïla Marrakchi ( born December 10, 1975 in Casablanca) is a Moroccan director and screenwriter.

Laïla Marrakchi completed a high school education with the DEA in film art. After various assistant director in 2000 she brought her first short film, L'Horizon perdu in the performance. Two documentary films followed in 2001 ( Femmes en royaume and Derrière les portes du hammam ) before 2002 at the International Festival of French film in Namur with Deux cents dirhams another short film presented, which like the previous deals with everyday life in Morocco. Followed in 2003 with Momo mambo another short film. L'Horizon perdu was 2000 at the Torino Festival of Young Cinema Award in Turin, Deux cents dirhams in 2003 at the International Short Film Festival in Tampere.

Became known Laïla Marrakchi with 2004's produced and shown at the International Film Festival in Cannes in a special category 2005 Film Marock, her first feature length film, were incorporated in their own youth experiences. It deals with the lives of young people of Moroccan upper class in Casablanca in the late 1990s and tells the story of a young Muslim woman a Jewish classmate tries to approach and the influence of their religious be little, yet traditional roots arrested family. Marock came at the beginning of the year 2006 in the cinemas and was also shown at the Jewish Film Festival Vienna 2007.

Laïla Marrakchi is Muslim and married to Alexandre Aja, French film director, screenwriter and film producer as well as Sephardic Jew.