Mariam Al Ferjani

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Female

Place of Birth Tunisia

Mariam Al Ferjani

Biography

Mariam Al Ferjani was studying medicine in her native Tunisia when she met Leyla Bouzid and exchanged her medical studies for directing and acting courses at the Civica Scuola di Cinema Luchino Visconti in Milan, where her father was based at the time. Outside of term-time, Al Ferjani headed home to Tunisia to direct and star in experimental shorts THE CLAIM and WINTRY. Alongside her cinema studies, she is also building a following for her photographic self-portraits. Since graduating in 2015, Mariam has been living and working between Tunis and Milan. She plays the lead role in Kaouther Ben Hania’s BEAUTY AND THE DOGS (2017). In Milan, she is currently writing her first fiction feature, ALYAH.

Known For

Actor

2024
2023
Omayma

as Omayma

2022
CAI - BER

as Nour

2021
Film fantasma

as (Respira)

2017

Director

Tunisia Factory

as Director

2018
Omertà

as Director