NADIA

Tuesday, October 11 – Truffaut Theater – 6:00 pm
Screening ends at 7:35 pm)
Followed by a conversation with writer/director Anissa Bonnefont

DOCUMENTARY

Presented in Association with:
Titrafilm
Federation Entertainment
Women in Film

NADIA

Directed by: Anissa Bonnefont
Written by: Anissa Bonnefont, Edith Chapin
Produced by: Myriam Weil (Federation Entertainment), Jean-Francois Camilleri (Echo Studio), Raphaël Perchet
Cinematography: Thomas Bremond
Film Editing: Guerric Catala
Original Score: Manuel Merlot, Cedryck Santens
Cast: Nadia Nadim
International Sales: Federation Entertainment

Nadia Nadim is a survivor. A fighter. She’s feisty and funny. She was born in Afghanistan, where her father, a general, was brutally executed by the Taliban when she was a child. Fearing for their lives, Nadia’s mother sold their house, packed up her five daughters, and paid a smuggler to get them out of the country. So in 2000, at the age of 12, Nadia suddenly found herself in Denmark. Today, Nadia is an international soccer star. Certainly the greatest Afghan woman footballer of all time. The Danish Football Association even bent the rules to allow her to play on the Denmark National Team in 2009. Playing with Paris Saint-Germain, she won that team the French league title in the 2020-21 season. Nadia is also a doctor, currently training to become a surgeon. She dreams of returning to Afghanistan one day, to find some closure to her life there. This is her amazing story, told in her own words.

After writing and directing three short films, Anissa Bonnefont directed Wonder Boy (2020), a highly intimate feature-length documentary portrait of Olivier Rousteing — the wunderkind fashion designer who became creative director of the house of Balmain at 24 — as he searches to find his birth mother. That film was nominated for a César Award for Best Documentary Film and won the Best Documentary Feature Award at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival. Nadia is her second documentary feature. Bonnefont is currently in post-production on her first narrative feature film, La Maison, an adaptation of a book on the world of sex workers, scheduled for release in France in November.