Tahani Rached
Tahani Rached is one of Quebec's most illustrious documentary filmmakers. Active mainly from the 1980s to the 2000s, she left a strong mark on our cinema with her first feature film, Where Dollars Grow on Trees (1980). Noticed by Denys Arcand, she was invited to participate in the collective adventure of Comfort and Indifference (1981). After working at the NFB, she directed several of the institution's flagship films, dealing in turn with the state of Haiti, Palestinian survival, the Quebec hospital system, doctors treating AIDS, the fate of Egyptian women, and an Outremont choir. Her most famous film to date remains Au chic Resto Pop, that she dedicated in 1990 to a soup kitchen in the Hochelaga-Maisonneuve district. After her return to her native land, she directed three feature films in Egypt, including the disturbing These Girls (2006) about Cairo street girls, renegades against their will.
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