After many years in the medical-social-educational field, Malika ZAIRI, a French-Moroccan woman, decided to make a career change to the film industry in 2013, convinced that images are a powerful tool for promoting social issues through and by means of images. Initially self-taught, Malika ZAIRI wrote, directed, produced and post-produced several which she distributes herself at festivals on five continents. Very soon, two of these short films were selected for numerous festivals around the world, to which she was invited to present and discuss them with the public. She soon discovered the world of film festivals, and was asked to run film workshops and sit on international festival juries, some of which she chaired. To make her transition to the film industry a reality, Malika ZAIRI took a number of film training courses at the Centre Européen à la Production de Films and the École des Gobelins in Paris. She also discovered the writing residencies to which she applied for her first feature film project, Hayat(i). She was soon spotted and selected by the Méditalent program. She then joined three Méditalent residencies in Tangiers, Marrakech and Marseille and, after 7 years of writing and rewriting, has now finalized the script for her first feature film, with the help of a script consultant. Shooting is in Morocco in autumn 2026. With her dual social and cinematographic expertise, and after having immersed herself in the international festival environment, Malika ZAIRI is taking advantage of the 2020 health crisis to create the International Children Care Film Festival, the world's first international the world's first international film festival on child and youth protection, which will hold its 5th edition in November/December 2025. children and young people through the 7th Art. In addition to the festival, we also work in schools, colleges and high schools, as well as in prisons for minors and adults, to introduce these audiences to the various professions involved in the film industry. Today, Malika ZAIRIspires to use her cinematographic skills to do more for the protection of children and young people worldwide, and to make a particular commitment to her home country, Morocco. her home country, Morocco, where she organizes "cartes blanches" to raise awareness among children, young people and families of the risks and realities of illegal immigration to Europe. Une histoire de vacances is her 5th short fiction film.