HEJER CHARF

Producer and director

BIOGRAPHY

Hejer Charf was born in Tunisia, she is a Canadian director and producer. She lives in Montreal where she started NADJA Productions Inc. in 1996. A company that produces auteur and independent films.

She wrote, produced and directed LES PASSEURS that received the PEACE SEAL OF FLORENCE, Italy (2003).

She directed the short films: -the music lover (2008), -the arab hand (2008) and -tracing my curse (2008).

She directed documentaries, among them, -Anna Karina (2004), -Lebanon(s), what futures?,

-Arab Women in Quebec (in production).

She produced the musical shows of Anna Karina and Philippe Katerine in Quebec (2004).

She produced the road-movie Victoria, written, directed and starring Anna Karina. The film's score is composed by Philippe Katerine (2008). 

Hejer Charf is currently working on a long feature film about the Arab and Muslim culture in Quebec.

LES PASSEURS AND HEJER’S OTHER FLMS ARE AVAILABLE ON DVD (nadja@ca.inter.net).




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Hejer Charf receiving the Seal Peace of the City of Florence for her movie LES PASSEURS


« My greatest cinematic influences both, emotionally and intellectually, are and always will be Godard and Pasolini. Their films mix fiction and reality, literature, poetry and cinema. Their films expand beyond the borders of standard genres. And I don’t like borders. Cinema is an "encyclopedic" art that goes from music, to painting, to books… to pure thought.
It is in the passing from one place to another that I am my most complete. The commuting from one culture to another, from one country to another, from one city to another, from one religion to another, from reality to fiction. I want my films between two frontiers; always in the burst of openness and passage. My first name is Hejer, pronounced like the French "Et j’erre" which means "and I wander" ».  Hejer Charf

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