Najat Saïdi

Moroccan French filmmaker and Protographer.

Najat SAÏDI is a screenwriter, film director and photographer.

She is known for "Non désirée" (2022), "Le calme" (2024), GRAND PANAME (2024, short, dir: David "Dakaj" Kajman | 1ère Assistante Réalisatrice), MARHABA (upcoming).

Last exhibition : @womensmuseummarrakech
📍Between Paris & Marrakech
Alumni @1000visages & @ecolekourtrajme

Najat SAIDI is a Franco-Moroccan author, photographer and director. Graduated with a Master's degree in International Cooperation from the Institute of Political Studies in Lyon (France), she worked 5 years in this sector before arriving at the cinema. She joined the Kourtrajmé film school in 2022 and directed'Non désirée', her first short fiction film.
In 2024, she directs "Le calme", a short documentary.
She currently works as an assistant director in documentary and fiction, and writes her projects at the same time.

OTHER BIO:
Najat SAIDI is a French-Moroccan author, photographer and director.
During her studies at Sciences Po Lyon, she traveled to the Middle East, where she started photography. After graduating in international cooperation, she worked for 5 years managing environmental projects in Africa and Asia.

At the same time, she continued to study photography and took a workshop on the creation of documentary series. She was also trained in podcasting with 1000 visages and Apple Creative Studio, which led to her first fictional story. In residency and at the Kourtrajmé school, she learnt screenwriting and directing, where she directed her first fiction in 2023.

For the past three years, she has decided to devote herself fully to the stories that inhabit her. Living between France and Morocco, she now combines writing, photography, sound and video to tell what we don't see or disappear. With a sensory approach, she tells stories, those of the people she meets, those of the places, those of our time.

"Marhaba" is her first feature documentary project. With this project, she participates in the Pan-African Documentary Hive (La Ruche Documentaire Panafricaine), at FIDADOC 2025 (Agadir, Morocco).




Fuente / Fontes / Our Source / Quelle / Nos Sources (MAIS INFORMAÇÕES / READ MORE / PLUS D'INFOS) :
► Africiné Magazine (Dakar)
► www.instagram.com/najatsaidi_/
► www.najatsaidi.com/about
► FIDADOC 2025 (Agadir)
Updated by Thierno DIA, 30 June 2025