Director
Tahani Rached
79 years · Cairo, Egypt · 14 films
From her first feature film, Les voleurs de job (1980), Tahani Rached left her strong mark on our cinema. Noticed by Denys Arcand, he invited her to participate in the collective adventure of Comfort and Indifference (1981). She then moved to the NFB, where she directed several of the institution’s flagship films, dealing in turn with the Haitian condition, Palestinian survival, the Quebec hospital system, AIDS doctors, the fate of Egyptian women and an Outremont choir. Her most famous film to date remains Au chic resto Pop, which she dedicated in 1990 to a soup kitchen in the Hochelaga-Maisonneuve district. She filmed only testimonies in song, in collaboration with the composer-performer Steve Faulkner (known as Cassonade), thus accentuating a singular trait found in the majority of her films. This place left to the song as an expressive revelation of a critical aspect of the real situation that we want to capture. In 2006, the director returned to her native country where she made three films, Ces filles-là, a documentary selected by the Cannes Film Festival, Voisins and De longue haleine, which is dedicated to the Egyptian revolution as experienced by a local family.
Best known for
Filmography 14
Vis ta vie
2026 · Director
Neighbors
2009 · Director, Screenplay
On Plex
Soraida, a Woman of Palestine
2004 · Director
On Tubi TV
For a Song
2001 · Director
On Tubi TV
Emergency! A Critical Situation
1999 · Director
Four Women of Egypt
1997 · Writer, Director
Doctors with Heart
1993 · Director
Au chic Resto Pop
1990 · Director, Screenplay
Haïti, Nous là! Nou La!
1987 · Director
Bam Pay A! – Rends-moi mon pays!
1986 · Director
Haïti (Québec)
1985 · Director
Beirut! Not Enough Death to Go Round
1983 · Director
La phonie furieuse
1982 · Director, Writer
Les voleurs de job
1980 · Director