Karin Albou

Karin Albou is a French director, screenwriter and actress.

Early life

Karin Albou was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine to Algerian immigrant parents. Her mother was only 16 when she was born.[1] Albou was raised in the Jewish faith. In 1999 she moved to Tunisia to settle down for one year. She went back to Paris and started her carrer as a filmmaker. She also started a carrer as a writer and published her first novel in 2010. ("La Grande Fête", édition Jacqueline Chambon. Translated in Italian : "La grande festa" Oedipus edizioni, traduzione di Maria Teresa Fiore

Career

Albou made her feature film debut in 2005 with Little Jerusalem which debuted at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival in the International Critics' Week. Despite being Albou's first feature film Albou was disqualified from competing for the Camera d'Or, awarded to the best first film playing at the festival, because she had previously directed a made-for-TV movie.[2]

In 2008 Albou released her second feature film The Wedding Song, a Holocaust drama set in Tunisia in 1942 that was loosely inspired by letters Albou's paternal grandmother had sent to her husband during the war when he was sent to a labour camp.[3] The film played multiple Jewish festivals but failed to garner mainstream attention something Albou attributed to the many scenes of graphic nudity in the film.[4] Albou's third feature film My Shortest Love Affair was released in 2015. Albou also co-starred in the film as a woman in her 40s who becomes pregnant after a one-night stand with a former fling and who decides to try to make a go of it with the father of her future child.[5]

Filmography

Shorts :

  • Id El Kébir ( 1998)
  • Corps de dame (2009)
  • Yasmine and the revolution ( 2011)

Documentaries :

  • My country left me
  • Tunisian Automn

Features :


As an actress

Shorts

  • Corps de dame ( Dir : Karin Albou)
  • Jamais ensemble (Dir :Nadja Karek)

Features

  • My shortest love affair (Dir : Karin Albou)
  • The wedding song ( Dir Karin Albou)

Won best actress award in Bastia Film festival ArteMare

References

  1. ↑ "Karin Albou". Retrieved 3 May 2016.
  2. ↑ "Camera d'Or disqualifies 3 directors". Retrieved 3 May 2016.
  3. ↑ Esther, John (6 November 2009). "EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: KARIN ALBOU". Retrieved 25 April 2016.
  4. ↑ Curiel, Jonathan (19 July 2009). "'Wedding Song' offers fresh take on feminity [sic]". SFGate.com. Retrieved 25 April 2016.
  5. ↑ "My Shortest Love Affair". Retrieved 3 May 2016.



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