Malika Zairi
About Director
After many years of fieldwork in the medical-social-educational sector, Malika ZAIRI, a French-Moroccan woman, decided to make a career change to the film industry, by working as a film director.
2013, convinced that images are a powerful tool for socializing through and by images. Initially self-taught, Malika ZAIRI has written, directed, produced and post-produced a number of films.
short films with a social theme, 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 has just finished writing her first feature film project after 7 years of writing and rewriting, accompanied by a script consultant. Shooting is
scheduled to take place in Morocco in autumn 2026. With his dual social and cinematographic expertise, and after having immersed himself in
international festival environment, Malika ZAIRI took advantage of the health crisis of 2020 to create the International Children Care Film Festival, the first international festival of
films to the world of child and youth protection, which will hold its 5th edition in November/December 2025 and which aims to raise awareness and promote the protection of children and young people.
children and young people through and by the 7th Art. In addition to its festival, the company works in schools, colleges and high schools, as well as in prisons for minors and adults, to introduce these audiences to the different professions involved in cinema.
Today, Malika ZAIRIspires to use her cinematographic skills to do more for the protection of children and young people worldwide, and is particularly committed to
her native Morocco, where she organizes "carte blanche" film screenings 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.