Tahani Rached

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Female

Birthday 1947-05-16 (77 years old)

Place of Birth Cairo, Egypt

Also Known As تهاني راشد

Tahani Rached

Biography

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.

Known For

Director

2009
Neighbors

as Director

2006
These Girls

as Director

2001
For a Song

as Director

1997
1993
Doctors with Heart

as Director

1990
Au chic Resto Pop

as Director

1985
Haïti (Québec)

as Director

1982
La phonie furieuse

as Director

1980
Les voleurs de job

as Director

Writer

2009
Neighbors

as Screenplay

2006
These Girls

as Writer

1997
1990
Au chic Resto Pop

as Screenplay

1982

Producer