« 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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BIOGRAPHY

Hejer Charf is a Canadian director and producer of Tunisian origin. She founded the company Nadja Productions in Montreal in 1996. She has directed several short and medium-length films and visual installations.

Her feature documentaries are: Les Passeurs (a docufiction that received the Seal Peace of Florence in Italy), Autour de Maïr, Béatrice a Century and Years in Brackets 2020-2022.

She produced Victoria, a road-movie written, directed and starring Anna Karina. She produced the concerts of Anna Karina and Philippe Katerine in Québec. Hejer Charf publishes articles on art and politics.

FILMOGRAPHY

PRODUCER

-Victoria, by Anna Karina, 95 min., 2008

- Anna Karina & Philippe Katerine concerts in Canada, 2004

       

DIRECTOR & PRODUCER

      - Years in Brackets 2020-2022, 95 min, 2023

       - Béatrice un siècle, documentary, 97 min, 2018

       - Autour de Maïr , documentary on féminisme and women writers, 90 min.   2015

- Les Passeurs (Sceau de la paix de la ville de Florence), 80 min. 2003

- Anna Karina in Québec (Anna Karina au Québec), 26 min.  2005

- The Music Lover, ( La mélomane ), 6 min. 2008

- Fatma’s Hand, La main de Fatma,  10 min. 2008

         - Following my Curse ( Sur la trace de ma malédiction ), 13 min, 2008

        - Wonderful World , 9 min. 2009

- Transitory lives ( Nos vies transitoires ), 6 min. 2009

-  One God  (Un Seul Dieu ), 3 min. 2009

- Place des arts Swimmer  (La nageuse de la Place des arts ), 3 min. 2009

- Le ventre de Noun , 4 min. 2010

- I am the Future of your memory ( Je Suis le Futur de Votre Mémoire ), 4 min. 2010

- Girls Mutilated ( Filles Mutilées ), 3 min. 2010

- Stoning Women ( Femmes lapidées ), 4 min. 2010 (Women’s Voices from the Muslim World, L.A. 2011)

         - Where Have All the Flowers Gone , 24 min. 2010 (New York International    Film Fest. (édition de Los Angeles 2010)

         - Iman ( Le viol de Iman Al-Obeidi , 5 min. 2011

       

        - Rien de mon errance, video-poème à partir des poèmes de Nadine         Ltaif 3 min. 18 sec. , 2019

      - Les réfugiés du chemin Roxham, 6 min. 16 sec., 2019

VISUAL EXHIBITIONS :

1. -Cinema of Sisyphus (LE CINÉMA DE SISYPHE 100 X recommencé), Maison de la culture Plateau-Mont-Royal, from 16 février to 17 mars 2013.
   

1. -Dream of a Chair  (Rêve d’une chaise), video 2 min. 5 sec., shown in the group exhibition Anagramme d’une chaise , Maison de la culture Plateau-Mont-Royal,  20 juin-25 août 2013.
   
   

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

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