Egypt / Switzerland

Nadia Farès is of Egyptian-Swiss origin. A director, writer, producer and educator, she graduated from Cairo University in 1986 and that same year, began to make short films. In 1989, she assisted filmmakers, Zebrowsky and Kieslowski, who became her mentor on one of her first short films, Sugarblues (1990), which won a Stanley Thomas Johnson Award. She received a Master’s degree in film studies from New York University in 1995. Farès has also lived and shot films and TV shows in different countries: America, Tunisia, France, Switzerland, Egypt and the Emirates. Her first feature film Honey and Ashes (1996), won 18 awards at many international film festivals. Her TV drama Small Differences, was part of the prestigious series on ARTE, France. She has also directed several short documentaries on social-political issues for RTS/TV5 Monde.

Filmography

Magic Binoculars (1986)
Letters from New York (1986)
Projections on Sundays (1987)
Semi-Sweet (1987)
Charlotte’s Empire (1988)
1001 American Nights (1988)
Sugarblues (1990)
D’amour et d’eau fraîche (1992)
Made in Love (1993)
Portrait of an HIV Positive Woman (1995)
Lorsque mon heure viendra (1995)
Honey and Ashes (1996)
ID Swiss: Mixed Up (1999)
Les Saveurs du printemps (2000)
Anomalies passagères (2003)
Expectations (2011)
Girls go Wheels (2016)
Checkpoint Tunisia (2017)
Karmalogic (2017)
Cairo Cycling Geckos (2018)
Swiss Stories in L.A. (2019)