Hicham Ayouch

Né en 1976, à Paris d’une père française et d’un père marocain.
Journaliste de formation, Hicham Ayouch a réalisé de nombreux films institutionnels et publicitaires. En 2004, il se lance dans l’écriture du scénario de Samba do Maazouz. Il réalise en 2005 son premier court métrage, Bombllywood. Il enchaîne avec un documentaire, Les Reines du Roi (2006), un documentaire sur le statut de la femme au Maroc, avant de signer son premier long métrage de fiction, Les Arêtes du coeur puis Poussières d’ange (long métrage documentaire), en 2007. En 2009, il tourne sa seconde fiction, Fissures, un triangle amoureux à Tanger, puis Fièvres (2014) son troisième long métrage de fiction.

Born in Paris (France), in 1976, to a French mother and Moroccan father, Hicham Ayouch – director, author and former journalist – is one of the most promising cinematic voices to come out of Morocco in recent years. Born in Paris, Mr. Ayouch worked in various capacities for several TV channels in France before focusing his efforts on filmmaking and leaving France to live is his native country of Morocco.
He has made two feature documentaries, The King’s Queens (2005), about the status of the women in Morocco, and Angel’s Dust (2007), about autistic teenagers. His two previous fiction features were Heart Edges (2006), about a fishing village shattered by tragedy, and Fissures (2009), a love triangle among misfits in Tangiers. Fevers / Fièvres (2014) is his third fiction feature film.

Source:
www.abudhabifilmfestival.ae/en/programme-events/films-2014/film-details?ID=15017